This digitally badged Credential Course is led by internationally renowned speaker, educator, and best-selling author Caroline Adams Miller, MAPP. It is a 46-hour deep-dive program grounded in evidence-based applied positive psychology, designed to equip clinicians with practical strategies to enhance motivation, strengthen goal attainment, improve relational functioning, and support client flourishing. The training emphasizes scientifically validated interventions, strengths-based assessment, resilience-building, and sustainable wellbeing practices that can be directly integrated into clinical work across diverse populations.

Module 1: The Development and Impact of Trauma

This foundational module redefines trauma to include perceptual and contextual factors, emphasizing prevention as a core clinical responsibility in the 21st century  . The neurobiology of stress is explored in depth, including the roles of key neuromodulators, prolonged neurochemical imbalance, and the cost of chronic activation. Trauma is examined within global and systemic contexts, highlighting the disproportionate burden on minoritized populations and the importance of culturally responsive, strengths-based approaches. The module concludes with a holistic framework for mental wellbeing that moves beyond intrapsychic models toward ecological and culturally grounded perspectives.

Module 2: Fundamentals of Trauma Prevention

This module shifts from remediation to prevention, introducing the goals and mission of trauma prevention and the 5As model as a practical framework  . Core pillars of holistic trauma prevention are outlined, alongside trauma-informed strategies such as the 5-4-3-2-1 coping tool and tiered interventions. A decolonized lens is emphasized throughout, examining cultural hegemony, intergenerational trauma, and continuous traumatic stress. Practical guidance is provided for integrating culturally sensitive trauma prevention into clinical assessment and intervention planning.

Module 3: Trauma Prevention in Relationships & Social Contexts

This module expands the lens to social determinants of health, familial trauma, intimate partner violence, toxic workplaces, and systemic oppression  . Evidence-based assessment tools and culture-centered interventions are presented to address racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, and other systemic “isms.” Emphasis is placed on multi-level prevention strategies that account for interpersonal, institutional, and societal contributors to trauma.

Module 4: Trauma Prevention Across the Human Lifespan

Recognizing that trauma risk evolves across developmental stages, this module addresses prevention strategies from infant and maternal mental health through adolescence, adulthood, and aging  . Continuous traumatic stress is examined, particularly among marginalized populations, with tailored assessment tools and interventions provided for each life stage. The module underscores lifespan-sensitive, culturally informed practice.

Module 5: Trauma Prevention at a Global Scale

This module addresses large-scale stressors including COVID-19, climate change, eco-anxiety, and global conflict  . Participants explore emerging syndromes such as COVID Anxiety Syndrome, assess climate-related psychological impacts, and examine the mental health consequences of war and displacement. Prevention strategies emphasize preparedness, resilience-building, and culturally responsive frameworks.

Module 6: A Deep Dive Into Therapist Self-care

The final module centers on clinician sustainability, differentiating burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress  . Evidence-based assessment tools and a five-step burnout prevention framework are presented. The neuroscience of stress and allostatic load is reviewed, distinguishing temporary from enduring self-care strategies. The course concludes with an integrated review, reinforcing trauma prevention as both a client-centered and practitioner-centered imperative.