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Certified Clinical Trauma Professional: Two-Day Trauma Competency Conference

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Evaluate the causes of posttraumatic stress and how events turn into posttraumatic symptoms.
  2. Determine the common elements for treating posttraumatic stress to have better treatment outcomes.
  3. Identify the clinical application of various theoretical treatment models for traumatic stress and how the common elements are embedded in these models.
  4. Evaluate traumatic stress from neurobiological, biochemical, psychological, social & spiritual perspectives.
  5. Integrate evidence-based skills for developing, maintaining, and enhancing your therapeutic relationship for more successful outcomes.
  6. Utilize ACES as an important tool in cognitive restructuring and evolving identity away from shame towards self-compassion.
  7. Utilize specific psychoeducation and cognitive restructuring techniques for maximizing engagement and participation in early treatment.
  8. Analyze the efficacy of self-regulation skills as a preliminary treatment intervention and to integrate throughout trauma treatment.
  9. Integrate CBT techniques to promote the development of stability, self-efficacy, anxiety management, and relational capacities in traumatized clients.
  10. Utilize empirical markers to know when it is both necessary and safe to transition from the safety/stabilization phase of treatment into the trauma memory processing phase without guesswork and minimal crises.
  11. Assess the potential risks and limitations of trauma treatment techniques.
  12. Integrate skills of neuroception, interoception and acute relaxation to interrupt physiological threat response.
  13. Develop skills for safety, stabilization, grounding and containment in trauma treatment.

Outline

A Brief History and Evolution of Traumatic Stress, Grief & Loss

  • Systemic traumatic stress theory
  • Symptom review
  • Review of effective treatments
  • Tri Phasic model
  • Most commonly used instruments to assess traumatic stress

Core Competencies of Traumatic Stress, Grief & Loss

Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Factors that Produce Anxiety & Traumatic Stress

  • Precipitating events
  • Meaning making
  • Physiology of Trauma
  • Perception
Adaptive and Maladaptive Coping Behaviors
  • Trauma Adaptation
  • Systemic influences
  • Emotional & psychological stressors
  • Integrated theoretical concepts from stress, crisis & trauma theories
  • Information Processing Model
  • Psychosocial Model
Review of Effective Treatment Interventions
  • Cognitive Behavioral Techniques (PE, CPT & SIT)
  • EMDR & Bilateral Stimulation
  • Thought Field Therapy (TFT)/Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
  • Sensorimotor
The Biochemical, Affective, and Cognitive Impacts of Traumatic Stress
  • Affective volatility
  • The body keeps the score
  • Biology of traumatic stress
The Impacts of Traumatic Stress Over Time & Across & Within Developmental Stages
  • Epigenetics
  • Reactive Attachment Disorder
  • Adrenal fatigue
The Role of Traumatic Stress in Clinical Disorders such as Personality Disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and More
  • Traumagenesis
  • Traumaddiction
  • Comorbidity
Conceptualizing a Framework of Healing for Survivors of Traumatic Stress
  • Systemic perspective
  • Strengths perspective
  • Survivor metaphor
Traumatic Stress Exists Across the Continuum of Systemic Levels
  • Systemic trauma theory
  • Community trauma
  • Vicarious secondary traumatization
Theories of Traumatic Stress, Loss and Grief
  • Information processing model
  • Psychosocial model
  • Contemporary thoughts
Bereavement and Adjustment Disorders
  • Supporting Normal Bereavement
  • Treating Complicated Bereavement
Assessment of Traumatic Stress Disorders
  • Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the APA
  • DSM-5® changes
  • ACE & Developmental Trauma
  • Diagnosing PTSD with the PCL-5
Evidence-Based Techniques/Interventions
  • Relaxation/Self-regulation
  • Grounding
  • Containment
  • Writing/journaling
  • Drawing art
  • Healing metaphors
  • Transitional objects
Demonstrations: Interactive Exercises/Application of Skills
  • Cognitive Behavioral Techniques
  • Narrative Exposure Therapy Technique
  • Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
  • Bilateral Stimulation
Limitations of the Research and Potential Risks
  • Limitations of many accepted models of trauma treatment
  • Weaknesses and limitations of evidence-based trauma treatment models
  • Limitations of the diagnostic (DSM-5 ®) system
  • Limitations and potential risks in grief work, due to research scarcity on the topic
Closure: Lessons Learned

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Case Managers
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Other Mental Health Professionals
  • Nurses

Copyright : 10/07/2019

2-Day: Certified Clinical Telemental Health Provider Training: A Therapist Guide for Ethical, Legal and Technology Concerns when Using Teletherapy

Program Information

Outline

Research about Telehealth Services

  • Here to stay
  • It works
  • Benefits

Application of Ethical Codes

  • Psychologists, social workers, professional counselors
  • Building competence
  • Technology appropriateness examples

HIPAA

  • HIPAA and HITECH
  • HIPAA and small providers
  • Violations and why they occur

State Law Applications

  • State interests for the pros and cons for permitting telehealth
  • Cohesive incoherence
    • Examples of statutory guidance
  • Risk management guidelines
  • Interjurisdictional practice

Efforts to Improve Telehealth Interjurisdictional Practice

  • PsyPact
  • Others
  • Checklist of questions to determine if you can practice across statelines

Case Examples for Using Various Forms of Telehealth Best practices for telehealth

  • Selecting the appropriate tools
  • Utilizing ATA guidelines
    • Clinical – patient and setting appropriateness
    • Technical - The setting, camera, microphones, and lighting
  • Administrative – connectivity, training
  • Practical solutions for your therapy

Processes & Procedures

  • The intake process
  • Informed consent – sample plan, key topics to cover
  • Emergency and crisis plans – what to include, medical issues, sample plan

Delivery Platforms Keeping Ethics/HIPAA in Mind

  • Asynchronous platforms
  • Common elements
  • Concerns with platform
    • Synchronous therapy
    • All-in-one services
  • Email and texting safely
  • Pros and cons
  • HIPAA requirements
  • Encryption
  • Password protection
  • VPN
  • Electronic communication policy
  • Hardware and software safety

Screening and Suitability of the Client

  • Benefits of telehealth Services
    • Evidenced-based research
    • Patient and setting contraindications
  • The intake, mental status exam, and ongoing Evaluation
  • Assessment with clients

Professional Boundary Considerations

  • For the client
  • For the clinician
    • Crossings versus violations
    • Recommendations for maintaining professional boundaries
  • Licensing board complaint examples

  • Red Flags for Therapist

  • Strategies to Avoid Red Flags

  • Recommendations for improving the therapist's telehealth experience

  • Additional Resources

Multicultural Considerations

  • Issues to consider
  • Geography, settings, populations
  • Seeking guidance

Theoretical Considerations for Telehealth

  • Evidence-based support
  • Which models transition well

Self-Care for the Clinician

  • Ethics application
  • Causes of burn out
  • Warning signs in therapists
  • Characteristics of effective self-care
  • Strategies and techniques
  • Resources

Dos and Don'ts of Social Media

  • Using social media to your advantage
  • The required social media policy
  • Social media and boundaries

The Era of Electronic Records

  • Development of the electronic record
  • Electronic document storage
  • Electronic document destruction

Reimbursement

  • Medicare/Medicaid
  • Private payer

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Case Managers
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

  1. Analyze the ethical principles and applications of ethical codes for telehealth services.
  2. Determine the HIPAA guidelines and how they apply to telehealth services.
  3. Assess inter-state issues associated with telehealth and how to stay in compliance.
  4. Determine best practices for creating a good setting for telemental health services.
  5. Evaluate how to implement policies and procedures that are necessary for maintaining an ethical telehealth practice.
  6. Assess electronic services and platforms for delivering ethical telemental health services.
  7. Determine how to screen for suitable clients for telemental health services.
  8. Assess how to effectively manage boundary issues that might arise during telemental health services.
  9. Determine which therapeutic practices are conducive to telemental health services.
  10. Assess the threats that technology poses to the confidentiality and privacy of clients.
  11. Determine how to maintain ethical standards and compliance while utilizing social media technology.
  12. Determine how to correctly manage electronic records in a telemental health setting.

Copyright : 07/21/2020