Time: 0800 to 1630 on all three days
Day 1
1) Overview of VA/DOD Guidelines for the Assessment of PTSD
2) Description of PCL-5
3) Screening for Trauma and PTSD using the PCL-5
4) Assessing trauma history
5) Differential diagnoses
6) Providing Feedback to Clients
**LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
7) Introduction to Prolonged Exposure
8) Body of evidence
9) Theoretical assumptions
10) Who is appropriate for PE?
11) What does a PE therapist do?
12) PE Session 1: Introducing the treatment
a. Overall treatment rationale
b. Index trauma/Trauma interview
c. Relaxed breathing
Day 2
1) PE Session 2: Common reactions/Introducing in vivo exposure
a. Common reactions discussion
b. Rationale for in vivo exposure
c. Generating in vivo targets
d. Developing the SUDS rating scale
e. Refining the in vivo hierarchy
f. Preparing the client for their first in vivo exposure
**LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
2) PE Session 3: Introducing imaginal exposure.
a. Rationale for imaginal exposure
b. Implementing imaginal exposure
c. Processing
Day 3
1) PE Sessions 4-5: Shaping engagement
a. Under-engagement
b. Over-engagement
c. Anger
2) Assessing progress to improve outcome
3) PE Session 6-7: Introducing hotspots
a. Rationale for hotspots
b. Identification of hotspots
c. Exposure and processing
4) PE Final Session
a. Discontinuing PE: When is PE “done”?
b. Final session summary
c. Relapse prevention
5) Improving the accessibility of PE