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PTSD 101 Courses: Overcoming Barriers to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Treatment Engagement

 

PTSD 101 Courses: Overcoming Barriers

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The course Overcoming Barriers to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Treatment Engagement reviews strategies for improving PTSD patients' motivation to engage in treatment and to change long-standing maladaptive ways of coping with PTSD symptoms. Topics reviewed include behaviors that PTSD patients are often ambivalent about changing, roadblocks to admitting need to change, overview of a PTSD motivation enhancement group, treatment-related beliefs (fears and expectancies), and therapeutic alliance factors.

Author: Ronald Murphy, PhD (biography unavailable) and Craig Rosen, PhD

Goals and Objectives

  1. Identify reasons why patients may be reluctant to change long-standing behaviors
  2. Outline key elements of the PTSD Motivation Enhancement Group
  3. Articulate common differences between clients' and therapists' perspectives and assumptions that may impede effective treatment

Continuing Education (CE) Credits: Read the brochure (PDF) required for this course, which lists specialties that may receive credit. See more on CE Credits.

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Approx. course time: 1 hr

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Take the Overcoming Barriers exam for CE credit on TMS.

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