Description

Handouts

Outline

Assessing trauma

• DSM-5® category of Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders
  • What’s different in how we diagnose trauma
  • Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
  • 4th PTSD symptom cluster: negative cognitions and mood
• Large-T vs. small-t trauma
• Evaluating complex trauma
• Innovative screening and assessment tools

Risk and resilience

• Features that raise and lower the risk of trauma consequences: Pre-traumatic, Peri-traumatic, Post-traumatic
• Protective factors that reduce risk: Biological, Psychological, Social, Environmental

Post-traumatic growth

• Positive change as a result of trauma
• Thriving, not just surviving
• Changes in 3 areas
  • Enhanced relationships
  • Changes in view of self
  • Shifts in life philosophy
• Vicarious resilience
  • The surprising benefits of witnessing the growth of survivors

The Three-Stage Consensus Model

• Stabilization: Safety and strength-building
• Reprocessing: Reappraising traumatic thoughts
• Reintegration: Putting it all together

Evidence-based CBT practices

• Tailoring treatment to the specific needs of your client
• Powerful CBT strategies that work
  • Overcoming avoidance
  • Effective exposure techniques
  • Modifying cognitive distortions
• Advanced uses of CBT with trauma
  • Imaginal and in vivo exposure techniques
  • Effective homework and handouts for rapid improvement
  • Addressing ambivalence
• Practical applications using proven CBT tools
  • Automatic negative thoughts
  • Negative cognitive triad
  • Thought distortions
  • Evidence review
  • Decatastrophizing
• Stress Inoculation

Trauma and children

• Trauma-Focused CBT to help children, youth, and families
• Innovative child-focused CBT strategies
• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study and the impact of childhood trauma on adult functioning
• Video: Using ACE scores to impact the next generation

Substance use disorders and trauma

• Innovative treatment for dually-diagnosed
• CBT tools for overcoming addictions and co-occurring trauma disorders
  • Tolerating urges, cravings, and discomfort
  • Enhancing motivation
  • Cost/benefit analysis
  • Behavioral rehearsal with high-risk situations
  • Identifying thought distortions that increase use
• Integrated approaches to reduce relapse rates
• Common features in substance use disorders and PTSD

The ethical benefits of building trauma-informed organizations

• Creating a practice niche based on ethical trauma care
• Developing a consultation model to intervene with high-risk groups
• Helping organizations become trauma-informed to protect both staff and clients

Ethics in trauma work

• Green Cross Academy of Traumatology guidelines for ethical interventions
• International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies best practice parameters
• Recovery Bill of Rights for Trauma Survivors
• The ethical mandate of provider self-care: know your code of ethics
• Compassion fatigue: Reduce your risk

Faculty

Martha Teater, MA, LMFT, LCAS, LPC

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Martha Teater, MA, LMFT, LCAS, LPC, is a Diplomate with the Academy for Cognitive Therapy and is a practicing cognitive-behavioral therapist. She has maintained a private practice since 1990 and has worked in primary care settings, free clinics, and medication-assisted treatment programs. Martha is a Red Cross disaster mental health manager and has been on many national disaster deployments where she provides support to traumatized people. She is also involved with the Red Cross Service to the Armed Forces to develop programs to support military and veteran families.

She has provided trainings in the United States and internationally on topics such as evidence-based treatments for trauma, DSM-5®, compassion fatigue, and behavioral treatment of chronic pain. A prolific writer, Martha has published over 175 articles in newspapers and magazines, including Psychotherapy Networker and Family Therapy Magazine. Martha is the co-author (with John Ludgate) of Overcoming Compassion Fatigue: A Practical Resilience Workbook (PESI, 2014) and (with Don Teater) Treating Chronic Pain: Pill-Free Approaches to Move People from Hurt to Hope (PESI, 2017).

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Martha Teater maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Martha Teater is a Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.