Advanced Trauma Focused Assessment and Intervention.

Catalog description

Advanced assessment and therapy skills related to trauma-related sequelae. The emphasis of the course will center on the understanding of evidence based practice including trauma assessments, phase-oriented treatment models, neurobiology of trauma sequelae, as well as clinical insights, case studies, and a systematic review of numerous evidence-based psychotherapy approaches such as: Prolonged Exposure, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Written Exposure Therapy, and Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Students will be oriented to therapy considerations in the selection of particular trauma-informed approaches in addition to clinical considerations related to therapy with clients who have co-morbid disorders. Additionally, students will be introduced to key ingredients in evidence-based therapies and will both learn and demonstrate essential skills inherent to many evidence-based approaches to PTSD (e.g. relaxation exercises). Prerequisite: TRMA 632 or CMHC 632; (or MAFT 643 for MAFT students).