Treating PTSD: Natural Disasters, Sexual Abuse, and Combat (ND)

Course overview

Topics included in this course are: Effects of Trauma; Posttraumatic Distress; Adaptation to Trauma; Depression and PTSD; Emotions; Self-Destructive Behaviors; Victimization; Triggers in PTSD; Coping Styles with Posttraumatic Outcomes; Recall in Depression and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Recalling Emotions During Trauma; Unresolved Anger; Traumatic Grief and Loss; Empowerment in PTSD Clients; Trauma Survivors as Clients; Case Study: Mona- Two Steps Forward, One Step Back; Discovering Commonality: Group Therapy for PTSD Survivors; Client Exercise: Identifying Triggers; The Shock Stage of PTSD; Survivor Guilt and Self-Blame; Client Exercise: Distinguishing Grief and Anger; Intrusions and PTSD; Five Fears that Interfere with Intimacy in PTSD Survivors; Symptoms of PTSD in Young Children; Helping Family Members of a PTSD Survivor; How a Parent's PTSD Affects Children; and Human Trafficking into and within the United States: A Review of Literature and Evidence-based Treatment for Adult Women with Child Abuse-related Complex PTSD: A Quantitative Review.