TRAUMA TREATMENT BLACKBOARD

Several traditional PTSD therapies give concerted attention to changing irrational thoughts about traumatic experiences to more rational characterizations of what transpired. Other therapies favor addressing the sensory and somatic symptoms associated with traumatic experiences, believing it’s more important to help clients work through those negative reactions, rather than focus on an event’s cognitive aspects. One …

Multichannel Eye Movement Integration: A New PTSD Treatment Paradigm Read More »

The American Psychological Association’s position statements regarding “evidenced-based practices” (EBPs) have caused major rifts within the mental health practitioner community. The problems began when APA adopted a 1990 policy stating that only treatment methods demonstrating superior reductions in symptoms based on a research method called randomized controlled trials (RCTs) should be considered “evidence-based.” Results from …

Why “Evidence-based Practices” for PTSD are Not! Read More »

The PCL-5 is a 20-item checklist that can be used both as a diagnostic tool to help determine a PTSD diagnosis and as a standardized measure of symptom change pre and post trauma treatment. It was developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs PTSD Center. Checklist items are aligned with the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for …

PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) Read More »

The diagnostic criteria for PTSD contained in the American Psychiatric Association’s Fifth Edition of the Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders lists several requirements that must be met in order to diagnose PTSD. Every mental health practitioners who treats clients with trauma disorders should have a complete understanding of these requirements in order to avoid misdiagnoses. …

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