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PTSD Diagnosis and Treatment for Mental Health Clinicians

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About the Course

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, counselors, social workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about the understanding of PTSD assessment, treatment issues and controversies. Whether unfamiliar or familiar with some of the concepts involved in this material, you can benefit from information in this course.
This article focuses on four issues: PTSD assessment, treatment approaches, therapist issues, and current controversies. Important assessment issues include the trauma history, comorbid disorders, and chronicity of PTSD.

Note: While we feel it is an excellent article, it dates from 1996. This course will remain available until July 1st, 2011. For more recent courses on PTSD, use the Search function under the courses tab, and enter ptsd in the search field.

This course is based on the reading-based online article, PTSD Diagnosis and Treatment for Mental Health Clinicians created by Matthew J. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., Executive Director

Course Material Author

Matthew J. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., Executive Director

Matthew J. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., Executive Director authored the material only, and was not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Course Creator

Course Objectives:

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. To explore issues of therapist self-care when working with PTSD patients
  2. To explore types of PTSD and appropriate interventions
  3. To explore important assessment issues involving trauma history, cormorbid disorders, and chronicity of PTSD

Availability

This course is available starting Jan 1st, 2003 and expires Aug 24th, 2011

Disclosure to Learners

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships

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Course Retired
Course Number 9590
1 CE credit hour
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  • Reading-Based Online
Exam Fee $5.97
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