This is a stand-alone course that can be taken by any practitioner as part of their continuous professional development (CPD).
It is also one of the modules within:
Identifying PTSD: What It Is and What It Isn’t
As well as being referred specifically for PTSD, many clients have recent or past trauma in their histories. A knowledge of symptoms characterizing PTSD will help the practitioner choose the right direction and intervention techniques for therapy.
- What is PTSD? The Big 3 – hyperarousal, reliving and avoidance
- What are the symptoms?
- How do I know if my client has PTSD?
- How do I tell my client about PTSD?
- How effective is treatment for PTSD?
Making Sense of PTSD
An understanding of how trauma leads to PTSD symptoms helps the practitioner conceptualise the case and explain the often frightening and disabling symptoms to the client. ‘One-off’ traumas such as a car accident require a different approach to multiple early abuse. Delegates will learn how to successfully work with these
- Models of PTSD inc. Clark and Ehler’s
- PTSD and the brain
- Type I and Type II PTSD
- Abuse survivors and PTSD
Treating PTSD
Discussing the trauma in an unstructured, conversational way, generally does not work. Worse, it can re-traumatise the client and lead to an increase in distressing symptoms such as flashbacks and dissociation.
- What works for PTSD
- How not to make things worse
- How do I deal with flashbacks?
- Special requirements for work with abuse survivors
- Reliving and EMDR approaches
- Changing thoughts and behaviour
- Relapse prevention
Course Outline:
- Introductions, aims for day
- Identifying PTSD : What it is and what it isn’t
- The Big 3 – Hyperarousal, Reliving and Avoidance
- What are the symptoms?
- How do I tell my client about PTSD?
- Abuse survivors and PTSD
- Type I and Type II PTSD
- PTSD and the brain
- Clark and Ehler’s model
- What works for PTSD
- How not to make things worse
- Working with abuse
- Dealing with flashbacks inc. pair work
- Demonstration and feedback
- Reducing avoidance of traumatic event
- Plan reliving
- Demonstration and feedback
- Hotspots and emotions
- Case Planning pair work
- Feedback
- Final Q & A
- Review of day
