FITT Clinician Knowledge Attitudes and Skills Self-Assessment
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Knowledge
1. Formulate the clinical conceptualization of families with complex adaptations to trauma.
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2. Describe the complex family interactions and reciprocal processes that contribute to the impact of trauma and traumatic contexts on the family system.
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3. Identify family-based assessment principles.
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4. Inventory a wide variety of measures useful in tracing and tracking a family’s response to trauma and identify when to use them.
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5. Define a multi-gated assessment strategy.
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Attitudes
1. Consider the need to conduct family trauma assessments in a manner that honors the family as an expert participant in the process.
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2. Realize that the assessment burden for the family is only justified by the clinical utility of the information collected
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Skills
1. Integrate family systems theory, family trauma theories, and general assessment theory to form the foundation for a comprehensive family driven trauma assessment.
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2. Explain the purpose of a family trauma assessment and engage a family in the assessment process.
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3. Incorporate information about the families context into a valid assessment (refer to Mapping Family Context).
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4. Conduct a bio-psycho-social-spiritual-trauma assessment with a family.
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5. Use the Family Assessment of Needs and Strengths Trauma Exposure and Adaptation.
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6. Evaluate decisions regarding assessment protocol for relevance with family’s needs and strengths and appropriateness for family’s context.
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7. Plan and carry out a comprehensive family driven trauma assessment.
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8. Use the Assessment Informing Report template to provide feedback to families regarding their assessment results including the rationale for the diagnosis of trauma-related disorders and any co-occurring diagnoses in any family member, the impact of trauma on the family and how the family functions, and the implications of these results for determining their treatment needs.
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