Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Trauma, PTSD and Grief

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Charles Jacob, PhD Related seminars and products

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Charles Jacob, PhD, received his PhD from The Pennsylvania State University and completed a year of additional training at the Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. He has over 15 years of clinical experience conducting and overseeing the delivery of mental health services to individuals with severe mood and personality disorders as well as their families.

Dr. Jacob is an expert in cognitive therapy, as well as a highly regarded clinician and scholar. He has regularly delivered lectures on cognitive behavioral therapies throughout the country and has been an invited speaker at universities throughout the world. Dr. Jacob is an Evergreen Certifications approved CBT-C consultant. He is a past president of the ACA’s Pennsylvania branch, a recipient of PCA’s David W. Hall Advocacy Award, and has been a featured interview in Counseling Today as well as NPR’s The Pulse.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Charles Jacob maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Calco Consulting Group and the University of New York in Prague. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Jacob receives a grant from the United States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Charles Jacob is a member of the American Counseling Association.

Objectives

1. Explain how to use CBT for the treatment of PTSD and grief.
2. Describe exposure-based treatment for trauma, clinical assessment and treatment issues to avoid.
3. Explain how to use mindfulness and CBT in the prevention and management of vicarious trauma.
4. Identify CBT techniques to use with crisis management and intervention.
5. Identify the essentials of treatments that may cause harm to your clients, as well as alternate interventions supported by current research (CBT and otherwise).
6. Discuss ways to keep you, your practice and your clients safe.

Outline

Healing Grief and Loss

• CBT as conceptual framework
• Timing and techniques for specific interventions
• When to use CBT
• When to use other techniques for grief

CBT Techniques for Trauma and PTSD

• Essentials of exposure-based treatment
  • Exposure-based treatment to manage symptoms of PTSD
• Clinical assessment and CBT-based trauma treatment
  • Structured assessment methods
  • Less formal assessment methods
• CBT Treatment strategies for trauma and PTSD
• Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
  • Specific techniques
  • Interfering with the natural process of coping
  • Prochaska’s model as a guide for intervention
• Recovered memory techniques and the treatment of dissociation
• Role playing exercises/Case examples

CBT for Managing Crisis and Crisis Intervention

• Essentials and risk factors
• CBT techniques to keep your clients safe
  • Matching versus calming
  • Breathing exercises
  • CBT and safety planning
• Specifics of assessment and crisis planning
• Concerns and criticism regarding safety contracts
• Role playing exercises/Case examples

Keeping You and Your Practice Safe

• Ethically work with these difficult clients
• Documentation and lessening risks for litigation
• Best practices in the event of a lawsuit
• Manage personal anxiety in the aftermath of losing a client
• Being aware of your vicarious trauma
  • CBT to conceptualize personal and professional impairment
  • Difference of self-care and mindfulness
  • Mindfulness-based interventions

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