Trauma Exposure, PTSD, and Violence

For mental health care providers

Run time: 107 min, in 6 parts
Production date: 2001

The purpose of this broadcast is to increase the participants' clinical knowledge of theories related to the "cycle of violence" in both adolescents and adults. The participants will then be presented with procedures for evaluating both violence exposure and the likelihood of violent behavior in their patients, especially as related to PTSD. These issues will be linked to current theory and research with the aim of increasing the practitioners' skill in identifying and treating dysfunctional anger and violent behavior as comorbidities of PTSD.

Goals:

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

1. Explain how to implement theories and knowledge base discussed in coursework into their clinical practice;
2. Describe findings from current research for application to clinical care for their patients;
3. Discuss how to improve provision of psychological treatments for anger control to individual patients;
4. Identify appropriate violence/risk reducing interventions for patients; and
5. Explain the importance of improving the identification of dysfunctional anger as a psychological comorbidity that complicates PTSD assessment and treatment.

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Speaker:
David W. Foy, PhD, Senior Research Consultant, National Center for PTSD