[Pre-Order] Trauma Treatment Advances with Don Meichenbaum, PhD Trauma Treatment Advances with Don Meichenbaum, PhDWhat Works for PTSD and Co-Occurring Disorders

• Controversies in the field of PTSD and Complex PTSD: “State of the Art”
• What distinguishes the 75% of individuals who evidence resilience VERSUS the 25% who develop persistent PTSD and related co-occurring disorders and adjustment difficulties
• The nature and neurobiology of resilience: Implications for assessment and treatment
• Constructive Narrative Treatment Perspective: How to help clients develop “healing stories” and accompanying coping strategies
• What resilient individuals DO and do NOT do
• A Case Conceptualization Model of risk and protective factors that informs treatment decision-making

SPECIFIC EVIDENCE-BASED INTEGRATED TREATMENT APPROACHES FOR CLIENTS WITH COMORBID DISORDERS

• The Core Tasks of Psychotherapy: What “EXPERT” therapists do
• PTSD is more than a Fear-based Anxiety Disorder: The role of guilt, shame, disgust, anger, prolonged and complicated grief and moral injuries
• Detailed clinical examples of INTEGRATED treatment with clients experiencing a variety of clinical disorders:
  • Prolonged and Complicated Grief Disorder
  • Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Suicidal behavior
  • Substance abuse disorder (including how to integrate 12 AA step programs and ways to enhance Recovery Transition Coping skills)
  • Traumatic Brain Injuries and PTSD

HOW TO IMPLEMENT THE CORE TASKS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY

• Develop, maintain and monitor a therapeutic alliance
• Treatment-informed feedback
• Collaborative goal setting using Motivational Interviewing to nurture hope and positive emotions
• Psycho-education using a CLOCK metaphor
• Teach intra- and interpersonal coping skills: Intervention guidelines on ways to increase the likelihood of treatment generalization
• Bolster the client’s resilience in six domains: physical, interpersonal, emotional, cognitive, behavioral and spiritual
• Integrate spirituality and psychotherapy
• Address the needs of health care providers: Ways to bolster “vicarious resilience”

PRESENTATION OF A CLINICAL TOOL BOX TO BE USED IN YOUR PRACTICE

• Detailed CLIENT-BASED Checklists:
  • Coping strategies with Grief
  • Transition Recovery strategies from substance abuse
  • Consumer guidelines on how to evaluate treatment centers
  • 12 step AA checklist
  • Spirituality-based activities assessment and others

In the aftermath of experiencing traumatic events, most individuals in North America cope by methods of religious or spiritual activities. Dr. Meichenbaum will discuss the evidence for the incidence and impact of religious and spiritual modes of coping. He will provide you with specific ways to assess for the client’s use of spiritual coping and discuss the variety of methods to incorporate spirituality and psychotherapy. The functions of spirituality in the recovery process and an examination of both the dangers and strengths of using religious forms of coping will be covered. A detailed handout complete with valuable worksheets will be provided.