Trauma Management

Trauma Management

Traumatic events can affect anyone. These events can be natural or manmade – like accidents, violence and torture. It can devastate, terrify and even threaten one’s life. It affects the person going through it as well as the people around them – their family, friends and sometimes the entire society. The Team at Better Minds has conducted the following training programs and workshops in the area of Trauma Management:

  • Training and Capacity Building of NGOs on ‘Counseling Services for Child Survivors of Trafficking’ across the country in a series of 3-training workshops in New Delhi and Bangalore
  • Development of Training Module and Manual for ‘Counseling Services for Child Survivors of Trafficking’ for National Institute for Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD), New Delhi supported by UNICEF, New Delhi, for the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India
  • Training community workers and NGOs on ‘Psychosocial Aspects and Counseling Skills’ for victims/survivors of earthquake in Nepal
  • Lectures on ‘Post Traumatic Stress’ to deal with the after-effect of the disaster for the survivors of Earthquake in Nepal
  • Training of Senior Staff, Probationary Officers and Superintendents of Shelter Homes for Trafficked Victims in Maharashtra – ‘Advanced Training in Psychosocial Counseling for Trafficked Victims’ under the aegis of PRERANA- ATC (Mumbai) at Lonavala
  • Workshops for Government officials, NGOs and SAARC officials on ‘Counseling Services for victims/survivors of Child Trafficking’, under the aegis of National Institute of Public Cooperation and child Development (NIPCCD), New Delhi
  • Workshops for officials of Child Welfare Committee, Juvenile Justice Board on ‘Counseling and Communication skills for children and adolescents in need of special protection’, under the aegis of National Institute of Public Cooperation and child Development (NIPCCD), New Delhi
  • Workshops for NGO workers in area of Child Abuse, Neglect & Trauma on ‘Counseling Services’, under the aegis of National Institute of Public Cooperation and child Development (NIPCCD), New Delhi
  • Workshops for police officials working in the Crime Against Women cell for dealing with domestic violence and women in distress on ‘Counseling Services’, under the aegis of National Institute of Public Cooperation and child Development (NIPCCD), New Delhi
  • Workshops for officers of public and private sector institutions on ‘Counseling and Communication skills focusing on Sexual Harassment in the workplace’, under the aegis of National Institute of Public Cooperation and child Development (NIPCCD), New Delhi
  • Workshops for government school teachers on ‘Understanding Child Abuse & its Impact’, under the aegis of National Institute of Public Cooperation and child Development (NIPCCD), New Delhi
  • Workshops for National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Government of India on ‘Counseling for child victims in Disaster Management’
  • Presentation on ‘Trauma & Violence: Understanding & Management’ at Mid-Term CME by the Delhi Psychiatric Society, India

Trauma Management

Traumatic events can affect anyone. These events can be natural or manmade – like accidents, violence and torture. It can devastate, terrify and even threaten one’s life. It affects the person going through it as well as the people around them – their family, friends and sometimes the entire society. The Team at Better Minds has conducted the following training programs and workshops in the area of Trauma Management: