Don Meichenbaum – Trauma Treatment Advances with Don Meichenbaum, PhD What Works for PTSD and Co-Occurring Disorders
How do the experts consistently get positive results — even with clients who have experienced unimaginably horrific traumatic events?
A cofounder of Cognitive Behavior Therapy and voted “one of the 10 most influential psychotherapists of the 20th century,” Dr. Meichenbaum has dedicated his life to improving the quality of clinical care.
In this groundbreaking online course, the culmination of Dr. Meichenbaum’s decades of clinical and research experience is placed at your fingertips. Now you can learn to integrate evidence-based techniques with your current methodology — and make your trauma treatment even more effective!
- The Core Tasks of Effective Psychotherapy — what works in trauma treatment, and how to avoid making people worse
- Resilience — how we can use the research findings to heal trauma
- Case Conceptualization Model to inform treatment decision-making
- Extensive 126-page PDF Manual including dozens of printable handouts and checklists, practical tools, and evidence-based techniques
- Case Studies with Detailed Analysis, including in-session examples with the most traumatized individuals
- And so much more!
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF:
- PTSD
- Complex PTSD
- Prolonged and Complicated Grief
- Traumatic Bereavement
- Substance Abuse Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Traumatic Brain Injuries
- Suicidal Behavior
HERE’S WHAT’S COVERED IN THIS COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING:
THE NATURE AND IMPACT OF TRAUMA EXPOSURE: THE “UNTOLD STORY” OF RESILIENCE
- 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
About the Course Expert:
Don Meichenbaum, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada from which he took early retirement 15 years ago to become Research Director of the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment of Victims of Violence in Miami. (Please see www.melissainstitute.org.com that has had over 2 million hits worldwide.) He is one of the founders of Cognitive Behavior Therapy. In a survey of clinicians reported in the American Psychologist he was voted “one of the 10 most influential psychotherapists of the 20th century.” He recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the clinical division of the American Psychological Association and was an Honorary President of the Canadian Psychological Association.
He has presented in all 50 U.S. states and internationally. He has published extensively and most recently published Roadmap to Resilience: A Guide for Military Trauma Victims and Their Families. His other books include Treatment of Individuals with Anger Control Problems and Aggressive Behavior; Stress Inoculation Training; Facilitating Treatment Adherence; and The Unconscious Reconsidered.
He has consulted for various populations including veterans’ hospitals, the National Guard, psychiatric treatment centers for children, adolescents and adults, treatment center for individuals with traumatic brain injuries, torture victims, Native populations, deaf populations and school boards. See papers by Dr. Meichenbaum on www.melissainstitute.org (go to home page and click on Author’s Index and scroll to Meichenbaum).
Financial: Donald Meichenbaum is Research Director of the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment. He is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus for the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Meichenbaum receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Donald Meichenbaum has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
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