International Conference on Traumatic Stress and Resilience

The International Conference on Traumatic Stress and Resilience is geared towards updating scientific knowledge and strengthening clinical skills in the conceptualization and comprehensive approach to psychological trauma and its lifelong consequences. Using an interdisciplinary and evidence-based approach, the course develops the conceptual, neurobiological, and phenomenological foundations of traumatic stress, as well as its relationship to psychopathology, dissociation, mental health during emergencies and disasters, and contemporary psychotherapeutic interventions.

During the three-day course, current models for conceptualizing acute and complex trauma, resilience and post-traumatic growth, consequences of early childhood trauma, allostatic load and overload, prevention strategies, and interventions are addressed, considering specific populations. Psychotherapeutic interventions and stabilization programs with scientific backing are also reviewed, promoting trauma-informed clinical practice contextualized to the Peruvian reality.

The course aims to promote scientific updating, as well as ethical and humanistic aspects in clinical practice, in accordance with the Mental Health Law, the guidelines of the Ministry of Health (MINSA), the National Council for Mental Health Rehabilitation (CONAREME), and the international standards for continuing professional education (WFME 2023).

At the end of the traumatic stress and resilience workshop, the participant will be able to:

1. To differentiate and explain, based on contemporary models presented, the conceptual frameworks in trauma, identifying their clinical implications.
2. Recognize and analyze clinical manifestations of trauma throughout the life cycle, identifying relevant clinical signs in cases presented during the day.
3. To describe and correlate the main neurobiological models of traumatic stress (alert systems, memory and allostatic overload) with psychopathological findings and consequences for the overall health of exposed individuals.
4. Identify and prioritize risk factors and general principles of clinical assessment in people exposed to trauma, knowing initial intervention strategies and promoting the participant's continued training after the day.
5. Critically compare at least two evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder, noting differences, indications, and limitations.
6. To analyze the phenomenon of dissociation as a transdiagnostic psychopathological process, correlating the explanatory neurobiological models with the clinical correlate.
7. Recognize prevention and resilience-building strategies applicable to clinical, community, and emergency contexts, becoming familiar with specific interventions during the day.
8. Integrate trauma-informed care principles and professional self-care, identifying caregiver protection practices.

The course will consist of fourteen (14) panels, each discussing three topics with a twenty-five-minute presentation, followed by a fifteen-minute question and answer session. In addition, there will be one (1) opening plenary session lasting 90 minutes and three (3) keynote lectures, each lasting 45 minutes and followed by a fifteen-minute question and answer session.

Certificate issued by the University of Piura for the course “International Conference on Traumatic Stress and Resilience”.

Aimed at general practitioners, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychologists in psychotherapeutic training, social workers, nurses, psychiatry residents, medical and psychology students.