Continuing Education

Take part in one of many free in-depth trainings covering trauma and PTSD assessment and effective treatment. Many of these sessions are highlighted under topics on the site and also grouped here for your convenience.

Online and Live Training Series

From the War Zone to the Home Front: Supporting the Mental Health of Veterans and Families

Register now*. A series of 14 free, live, online trainings for community and VA mental health, primary care, and other providers.

• Every Thursday 11:30 am-12:30 pm ET (starts 2/23/2012)
• 14 online sessions, attend any number
• Targeted to community primary care and mental health providers
• Interactive format allows you to ask questions and interact with presenters
• All sessions archived online

As a community service CEs are available. Presented in collaboration with the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program*.

PTSD 101 Curriculum

View over 20 PTSD 101 Course Modules to learn about all aspects of PTSD care. CE credits are offered for most courses. These online hour long courses (Flash or PowerPoint format) include:

• A PTSD Core Curriculum
• Beyond the Basics
• VA/DoD PTSD Clinical Practice Guideline Series

Other Courses

• Psychological First Aid Training*
  Learn how to assist people in the immediate aftermath of disaster and terrorism. The National Center for PTSD collaborated with NCTSN to create this course and the Psychological First Aid manual.
• CPT Web*
  A web-based course on evidence-based Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). CE is available. The website is a project of the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina, with collaboration from the National Center for PTSD.

In-person Training Programs

The National Center for PTSD offers several in-person Training Programs including a week-long Clinical Training Program, Postdoctoral Training, and Internships.

Other Free Online Training

Other opportunities for providers caring for people dealing with psychological trauma:

• Psychiatry Care Live: 12 Key Issues Facing Psychiatry*
  What's new, important and changing: Free virtual CME program presented by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine starting in March, 2012: Wed 3/28/2012, 11-3 ET and Th 3/29/2012, 11-4 ET. Nine sessions covering topics such as DSM-5, genetics, and evaluating new models in psyhcopharmacology.
• DoD Monthly Webinar*
  The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury hosts Monthly Webinars to provide information and facilitate discussion on a variety of related topics. The webinars are open to the public.
• TF-CBTWeb: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy*
  For those working with abused and traumatized children who have symptoms of posttraumatic stress, this is a web-based course on Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).