February 24, 2024 Douglas Bremner, MD Webinar

Douglas Bremner, MD

Psychological Trauma: Guiding Clients to the Path of Recovery

Your clients play the most important role in their own recovery from psychological trauma. There are a number of tools that you can teach your client that can help them in their recovery. Encouraging your clients to take an active role in their recovery rather than just waiting for the therapist to “fix” them also gives them a sense of empowerment and control that in itself is therapeutic. The lecture covers topics to teach your clients about self care, including seeking safety and support, protecting themselves from unsupportive or retraumatizing people, writing about their trauma, and expressing themselves through the arts. This lecture also presents the neurobiology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a way that you can use to teach your clients, and other topics like trauma with the couple and family, and other trauma related psychiatric disorders.

Learning Objectives:

Teach clients to own their recovery. At the conclusion of the course participants will be able to teach clients how to take charge of their own recovery, through learning a series of practices like seeking safety and support, removing themselves from abusive or retraumatizing persons.
Help clients create their own narrative. Upon completing this course participants will know how to guide their clients in writing a narrative of their psychological trauma and will be able to review it with them with the ultimate goal of creating a narrative structure to formerly inchoate memory fragments as demonstrated by an actual written document that provides the background and narrative details related to the traumatic event. This may involve revisiting the scene of the trauma to correct cognitive distortions and create the new narrative.
Guide Clients to Altruism. This course will enstow a knowledge of research demonstrating that altruism leads to post-traumatic growth, by countering the negative cognitions about the self and the world that are a symptom of stress-related psychiatric disorders like posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, by fostering connections with others with a positive view of humanity, and by giving a sense of power and control through specifically changes injustices or situations of unfairness in the world. This will be shown by clients taking on specific voluntary activities, like working in a soup kitchen for the poor, or lobbying for changes in legislation.

Saturday, February 24, 2024

10:00 am - 1:15 pm ET

CE HOURS

3.0

$75.00

Douglas Bremner, MD

Dr. Bremner’s research has used neuroimaging and neurobiology measures to study the neural correlates and neurobiology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to combat and childhood abuse, as well as the related area of depression. His more recent work is expanding to look at the relationship between brain, behavior, and physical health including studies of neurobiological mechanisms involved in the relationships between stress and depression and cardiovascular disease, as well as the effects of different treatments on the brain. His studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to show smaller hippocampal volume in PTSD are amongst the most highly cited in the field. He has authored over 400 scientific articles and book chapters, edited three books, wrote six books including “You Can’t Just Snap Out of It” and “Guiding Clients in Recovery from Psychological Trauma,” and developed and validated the Early Trauma Inventory (ETI) and the Clinician Administered States Scale (CADSS).

Schedule

10:00 am - 1:15 pm ET

Psychological Trauma: Guiding Clients to the Path of Recovery

Content Level
Higher Thought Institute’s webinars are provided at the intermediate to advanced level of training. Our continuing education program is for all behavioral health professionals including: Counselors, Psychologists, Addiction Professionals, Social Workers, MFT, Psychotherapists and all other professionals working in the behavioral health field.

Our courses are provided as Live Online Interactive Webinars via Zoom and the pace is determined by the instructor in real-time.

Each professional is responsible for their individual requirements as stipulated by his/her licensing board.

Cancellation Policy
All registration fees are refundable, less a cancellation fee of $25.00 of the original price. All requests for cancellation must be submitted in writing to info@htilearn.com and must be received 7 days prior to the webinar start date. Cancellations received after 7 days from the event start date will receive a credit that can be used towards a future Higher Thought Institute webinar for up to 3 months.. NO EXCEPTIONS WILL BE MADE. Persons who register and fail to attend will not receive a refund. For questions or more information, contact Higher Thought Institute at (480) 440-7700 or info@htilearn.com.

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American Psychological Association
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Association of Social Work Boards
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National Board for Certified Counselors
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NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals
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New York Education Department for Licensed Mental Health Counselors
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New York Education Department of Creative Arts Therapy
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