Date course created: November 2020
Want to earn 11 credits in just two days with a leading PTSD therapy? Enroll in Prolonged Exposure Therapy training and certification with experienced instructors. The best part? The Prolonged Exposure training is available online, allowing you to complete it from the comfort of your home.
Discover below how investing in Prolonged Exposure Therapy training can advance your career.
Prolonged Exposure (PE) has been established as an evidence-based therapy for the treatment of PTSD, and is a therapeutic approach that has shown some of the strongest clinical outcomes. This two-day, intensive seminar introduces attendees to PE, and provides step-by-step training in this exposure-based modality. After attending this hands-on, experiential training, participants will know how to integrate exposure therapy skills into their practice to help traumatized clients! All materials, including instructions for key PE skills, are included with your registration!
**This is a 11-CE noninteractive, self-paced online video course delivered in home study format via an industry-standard online learning platform**
Objectives:
This training will provide participants clinical knowledge and tools to
a). After completing this training, participants will be able to state the DSM-5 PTSD criteria.
b). After completing this training, participants will be able to describe the Emotional Processing Theory.
c). After completing this training, participants will be able to name one risk of PE.
d). After completing this training, participants will be able to state at least two areas of the brain that exposure therapy targets.
e). After completing this training, participants will be able to discuss at least one PTSD assessment tool.
f). After completing this training, participants will be able to name the five steps of the Trauma Treatment Roadmap.
g). After completing this training, participants will be able to describe how to identify the “index trauma.”
h). After completing this training, participants will be able to state the rationale for in vivo exposure.
i). After completing this training, participants will be able to name at least two common reactions to trauma.
j). After completing this training, participants will be able to describe the difference between imaginal and in vivo exposure.
k). After completing this training, participants will be able to define “hot spot” and discuss its relevance in PE.
l). After completing this training, participants will be able to name one other therapeutic approach PE may be integrated with.
Course Outline:
- Introduction to PE
- PE in a nutshell
- PE and the Emotional Processing Theory
- Who PE was designed for
- Research supporting PE as an evidence-based therapy for PTSD
- Risks and contraindications
- Diagnosing PTSD and other trauma- or stressor-related disorders
- DSM-5 criteria
- Cultural considerations
- Brain science of trauma and exposure therapy
- Amygdala
- Hippocampus
- Insula
- Cortical areas
- Assessment/screening tools
- Primary Care PTSD Screen
- PCL-5
- IES-R
- CAPS-5
- Trauma Treatment Roadmap
- Bottom-up vs top-down approaches
- Stabilization and grounding
- Where PE fits into the roadmap
- Preparing for PE
- Assessing for readiness
- Motivational interviewing techniques
- Psychoeducation about trauma processing
- Therapeutic alliance
- PE: Session 1 step-by-step
- Psychoeducation about PE
- Trauma interview
- Identifying the index trauma
- Breathing retraining technique
- PE: Session 2 step-by-step
- Common reactions to trauma
- Psychoeducation about in vivo exposure
- In vivo exposure fear hierarchy
- Homework assignments related to in vivo exposure
- PE: Exposure sessions 3+ step-by-step
- Imaginal exposure to the traumatic event: step-by-step
- SUDS, symptom monitoring, and stabilization
- Managing hot spots
- Processing of the exposure
- In vivo exposure progress
- PE: Final session
- Final assessment
- Progress review
- Relapse prevention
- Determining next steps in therapy
- PE modifications
- Extending session length and/or increasing/decreasing frequency
- TBI
- Moral injury
- Other modifications
- Integrating PE with other treatment modalities
- EMDR
- Cognitive Processing Therapy
- Other cognitive behavioral approaches
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Target Audience:
The target audience for this event includes psychologists, social workers, counselors, MFT’s, and other clinical mental health professionals.
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Instructor(s): Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
Material Author(s): Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
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Course Materials & Delivery Method:
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- Delivery Method – this course is a recorded asynchronous, self-paced webinar training, and there is no access time limit or due date to complete it once enrolled. The enrolled learner will stream the recorded presentation and view the materials from their internet connected device via an industry-standard online learning platform.
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