From Awareness to Action: The Ethics of Trauma-Informed Care

Wednesday, July 29th, 2026 6:00 PM EDT -9:00 PM EDT

Lindsay Murn

$59.99 USD

Trauma is ubiquitous, with far-reaching negative impacts on individuals and communities. Mental health providers need to be competent in bringing a trauma-informed ethical decision-making framework into their clinical practice, agencies, and systems, in order to actively counter the effects of trauma while promoting healing, resilience, and recovery.

This foundational training offers clinicians a comprehensive introduction to the core tenets of trauma-informed care (TIC), while integrating the ethical principles guiding our profession, and highlighting cultural awareness and cultural humility as essential cornerstones of our work. Professional challenges like burnout, vicarious trauma, and boundaries will be examined through an ethical, trauma-informed lens, and strategies for how to mitigate such challenges will be addressed. In addition to didactic and reflective elements, the TIC principles and ethical codes of conduct will be brought to life through thought-provoking case scenarios - so participants can move from awareness to application to action.

About the Presenter

Lindsay Murn, PhD, CCTP is a Licensed Psychologist in Minnesota with over 17 years of clinical, assessment, and consulting experience spanning multiple settings. Her clinical specialties include trauma-informed psychotherapy and assessments for adults looking to deepen their self-understanding and foster resilience. In addition, Dr. Murn is dedicated to training the next generation of professionals as a clinical supervisor, consultant, and professional development trainer.

Learning Objectives:

Describe the 4 Rs and 6 principles of SAMHSA’s Trauma-Informed Care (TIC)
Identify at least two professional ethical codes that correspond directly to the TIC principles
Explain how cultural awareness and cultural humility underscore an ethical, trauma-informed approach
Apply a trauma-informed ethical decision-making model to a case example
Identify at least two professional ethical challenges and generate effective strategies to address them

Agenda:

6:00-6:20: Introduction to the course; Definitions of trauma, Types of trauma, Prevalence of trauma (audience reflection opportunities)

6:20-6:50: SAMHSA's 4Rs and 6 Principles of Trauma-Informed Care (TIC); 10 Principles of Trauma-Informed Practice (audience reflection opportunities)

6:50-7:15: Ethical Purpose, Principles, Values, and Codes of Conduct

7:15-7:25: Audience breakout rooms: Use your Ethics Code to identify codes that intersect with TIC principles

7:25-7:45: Cultural Humility defined; Intersection of Cultural Humility and TIC

7:45-8:10: Potential ethical pitfalls and safeguards, strategies to mitigate or prevent them

8:10-8:25: Trauma-Informed Ethical Decision-Making Model

8:25-8:40: Audience breakout rooms: Apply the model to a case

8:40-8:45: Audience comes back to main room with insights to share

8:45-8:50: wrap-up, summary

8:50-9:00 :Q&A

This workshop offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

This presentation is open to:

Social Workers
Professional Counselors
Therapists
Psychologists
Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services

Course Level: introductory

Level of Clinician: beginner

New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification. Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling. The grievance policy for trainings provided by NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here Satisfactory Completion Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire workshop, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here.

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