(Online Course) Prolonged Exposure (PE) Therapy for PTSD in Veterans and Military Personnel

75 minutes

Description

This interactive online training course provides an overview of PE, an evidence-based cognitive-behavioral treatment for PTSD described in the guide, Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD: Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences, therapist manual by Foa et al, 2007. While this course teaches the basic principles and strategies underlying PE, it should not be considered a substitute for the in-person 2-day PE training module.

Outline

  1. Introduction to PE

  2. Theoretical background

    1. Trauma and PTSD

    2. Behavioral Model for the development and treatment of PTSD

      1. Classical (Pavlovian/Respondent) Conditioning

      2. Operant Conditioning

    3. Exposure Therapy

    4. Emotional Processing: A cognitive behavioral model of PTSD

    5. Characteristics of trauma-related memory structure

    6. Recovery Process

    7. Avoidance leads to chronic PTSD

    8. Erroneous cognitions related to PTSD

  3. Empirical Support

  4. Overview of techniques and procedures

    1. Who is PE therapy appropriate for?

    2. A good foundation for PE

      1. Therapeutic alliance

      2. Therapist skills

      3. Treatment rationale

      4. Confidence in techniques

    3. Treatment procedures

      1. Education about common reactions to trauma

      2. Breathing retraining

      3. Imaginal exposure

      4. In-vivo exposure

    4. Session outlines

  5. Next steps for more in-depth training

Learning Objectives

  1. To discuss the theoretical underpinnings for PE.

  2. To summarize the empirical support for PE.

  3. To describe therapy procedures to include in-vivo and imaginal exposure and explain the general course of the treatment protocol.

Notes

None