Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD: Overcoming Stuck Points in Trauma Treatment

Course overview

Trauma and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can have a deeply disruptive impact on an individual's life and well-being, and can also be challenging to treat from a clinician's perspective. Fortunately, evidence-based therapeutic techniques have been developed to treat PTSD effectively in most cases, often vastly improving quality of life within three- to six-month treatment periods. Drawing from his years of training in Veterans Administration hospitals, Dr. Weiner presents a model for understanding and treating trauma from a cognitive-behavioral perspective, with a focus on Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)