Readiness to Change in PTSD Treatment

For mental health care providers

Run time: 102 min, in 6 parts
Production date: 2001

The purpose of this broadcast is to review clinical issues and research findings in the treatment of combat-related PTSD, which led to the application of readiness to change concepts to PTSD; review research on readiness to change PTSD among inpatient combat veterans; present an overview of the PTSD Motivation Enhancement Group; and describe a proposed model of PTSD treatment failure based on the Stages of Change model.

Goals:

After the completion of this program, participants should be able to:

1. Discuss a Stages of Change model of readiness to change PTSD, and the relevance of this model to client response to treatment;
2. Describe research findings regarding readiness to change PTSD;
3. Explain the rationale and techniques of the PTSD Motivation Enhancement Group, a brief therapy intervention aimed at reducing patients' ambivalence about changing PTSD symptoms; and
4. Describe a proposed model of PTSD treatment failure based on a readiness to change conceptualization.

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Speaker:
Ronald T. Murphy, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Dillard University, New Orleans, LA