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3-Day: Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist — Individual Course: Trauma Competency for the 21st Century: The Empowerment & Resilience Treatment Structure for Effective Trauma & PTSD Treatment


Speaker:
J. Eric Gentry, PhD, LMHC, DAAETS, FAAETS, CCTP
Duration:
3 Full Days
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
LWC053300
Brochure Code:
PLW59703
Media Type:
Live Webcast

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Description

Have you been trained in multiple modalities to treat trauma and still find yourself stuck in therapy with your traumatized clients?

Working through all the symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, flashbacks/ nightmares, self-destructive behaviors and shame of trauma and PTSD, is like peeling back an onion with these difficult clients. It takes a lot of work to get to the core of the clinical problem-trauma.

Working to heal trauma is hard. It’s sad, tiring, depressing and causes burnout- for both you as a clinician and for your clients.

But when you have that breakthrough with one of these difficult clients- it is one of the most rewarding things as a clinician!

This course is designed using evidenced-based, cutting-edge interventions and protocols that you can immediately implement to enhance your work treating survivors of trauma.

You will walk away with a new structure for treatment. This structure is applied to the entire treatment course for someone with PTSD using a comprehensive and integrative approach pulling from all trauma treatment modalities. You will learn how to accelerate treatment with this all-encompassing model, instead of getting stuck trying to use just one trauma treatment modality that may not work for every client.

Your new trauma and PTSD treatment structure will fit into a simple, but effective 4-stage treatment model:

  • Preparation & Relationship-Building
  • Psychoeducation & Skills-Building
  • Desensitization & Integration
  • Posttraumatic Growth & Resilience

If you work with clients who are survivors of trauma and struggle with their symptoms of PTSD, this course is a must-attend.

Credit


* Credit Note - *

NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information: Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this live interactive webcast. This webcast is a broadcast of a live event. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether web based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

CE Information is based on 100% attendance.

 


Counselors - Counselors

This educational offering consists of 19.0 clock hour(s) of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this offering and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements. 


Counselors - Texas Counselors

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a continuing education sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors. Provider #: 2477. This course qualifies for 19.0 continuing education credits.


Counselors - New York Counselors

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0033. This activity will qualify for 22.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance


Counselors - South Carolina Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists

This program has been approved for 19.0 continuing education hours by the South Carolina Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psycho-Educational Specialists. Approval #4540.


Social Workers - Social Workers

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 19.0 (Clinical) continuing education credits. Course level: Intermediate. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation.


Social Workers - Canadian Social Workers

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 19.0 (Clinical) continuing education credits for completing this intermediate level course. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance. Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.


Social Workers - Florida Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number #50-399. This course qualifies for 19.0 continuing education credits.


Social Workers - Illinois Social Workers

PESI, Inc is an approved provider with the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. License #: 159-000154. Full attendance at this course qualifies for 19.0 contact hours.


Social Workers - Kansas Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. Provider #14-006. This course has been approved for 19.0 continuing education hours.


Social Workers - Minnesota Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Minnesota, Board of Social Work. Provider #: CEP-140. This course has been approved for 19.0 continuing education hours. This certificate has been issued upon successful completion of a post-test.


Social Workers - New York Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0008. This activity will qualify for 22.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance. 


Psychologists - Canadian Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 19.0 continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement


Psychologists - Florida Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Psychology. Provider Number #50-399. This course qualifies for 19.0 continuing education credits.


Marriage & Family Therapists - Marriage & Family Therapists

This activity consists of 1140 minutes of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the activity advertisement, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements. 


Marriage & Family Therapists - Texas Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a continuing education sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists. Provider # 503. This course qualifies for 19.0 continuing education credits.


Marriage & Family Therapists - Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. Provider #:168-000156. Full attendance at this activity qualifies for 19.0 credits. 


Marriage & Family Therapists - New York Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. #MFT-0024. This activity will qualify for 22.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance


Addiction Counselors - Generic

This activity consists of 19.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.


Connecticut Addiction Counselors

Provider #120924. This course has been approved as a CCB approved training and has been awarded 19.0 hours by the Connecticut Certification Board.


California Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (CCAPP-EI)

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the CCAPP-EI, Provider #: 0S-03-036-1023. This activity meets the qualifications for 19.0 CEHs (continuing education hours).


Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists

This intermediate activity is approved for 19.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Nurses

PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 17118 for 19.0 contact hours. Full attendance is required. No partial contact hours will be issued for partial attendance. 


Florida Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider # FBN2858. This course qualifies for 19.0 contact hours. 

CE Broker


Iowa Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Full attendance at this activity qualifies for 19.0 contact hours. Full attendance in the activity is required; no partial contact hours will be issued for partial attendance. These contact hours are used for your license renewal. Please email cepesi@pesi.com with your license number, include the webcast title, speaker name and date. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid for the webcast.


Ohio Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI is an approved provider with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Provider approval #:RCST071001. Full attendance at this course meets the qualifications for 19.0 clock hours of continuing education credit.


Pennsylvania Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

This intermediate activity is approved for 19.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Educational Psychologists

This intermediate activity consists of 19.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


Other Professions

This activity qualifies for 19.0 continuing education minutes as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements. 



Handouts/Brochure

Speaker

J. Eric Gentry, PhD, LMHC, DAAETS, FAAETS, CCTP's Profile

J. Eric Gentry, PhD, LMHC, DAAETS, FAAETS, CCTP Related seminars and products

Compassion Unlimited


J. Eric Gentry, PhD, LMHC, DAAETS, FAAETS, CCTP, is an internationally recognized leader in the study and treatment of traumatic stress and compassion fatigue. His PhD is from Florida State University where he studied with Professor Charles Figley – a pioneer of these two fields. In 1997, he co-developed the Accelerated Recovery Program (ARP) for compassion fatigue – the world’s only evidence-based treatment protocol for compassion fatigue. In 1998, he introduced the Certified Compassion Fatigue Specialist Training and Compassion Fatigue Prevention & Resiliency Training. These two trainings have demonstrated treatment effectiveness for the symptoms of compassion fatigue, and he published these effects in several journals. He has trained over 100,000 health professionals over the past 20 years.

He has written numerous chapters, papers, and peer-reviewed journal articles in the areas of traumatic stress and compassion fatigue. Dr. Gentry is a Master Traumatologist with over 35 years of clinical experience with trauma, Complex PTSD, personality disorders, and dissociation.

He is the president and CEO of The Forward Facing® Institute and owner of Compassion Unlimited – a private psychotherapy, training, and consulting practice – in Phoenix, AZ.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. J. Eric Gentry maintains a private practice. He is the owner and President of Forward-Facing Institute, LLC., the CEO of Compassion Unlimited, and the co-director of Community Crisis Support Team. Dr. Gentry has employment relationships with the University of South Florida State, the Florida State University, the Florida Center for Theological Studies, the Argosy University, and the Webster University. He is a consultant and receives compensation. Dr. Gentry is a published author and receives royalties. He receives a speaking honorarium, book royalties, and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. J. Eric Gentry is a member of the American Counseling Association, the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, and others. For a complete list, please contact info@pesi.com.


Additional Info

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review. 


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion.


Outline

  • Trauma Informed Care
    • Philosophy and practice of Trauma-Informed Care
    • 19th century vs 20th century trauma treatment approaches
    • Integrate approaches as the principles for treating all traumatized clients
  • The Active Ingredients of Trauma Therapy
    • The common elements in all effective trauma treatments
    • Approach for successful and rapid resolution of PTSD symptoms
    • Development and maintenance of the therapeutic relationship & positive expectancy
    • Psychoeducation/cognitive restructuring
    • Exposure/narrative
    • Relaxation/self-regulation
  • The Empowerment & Resilience Trauma Treatment Structure
  • Assessment
    • Quantitative assessment instruments and clinical interview sufficient to:
      • Accurately diagnose PTSD
      • Develop preliminary treatment and case planning
    • Monitor treatment effectiveness
    • Identify any treatment shortcomings and adjust treatment accordingly
    • A mid-treatment reassessment to determine the need for trauma memory processing to desensitize and integrate memories
  • Stage 1: Clinical Preparation & Client Relationship-Building
    • Importance of relational factors in the resolution of PTSD symptoms and in helping survivors to heal from these past events
    • Skills for a better therapeutic relationship with trauma survivor clients
    • Techniques to help positive expectancy with trauma survivor clients as an important early treatment intervention
  • Stage II: Psychoeducation & Skills-Building
    • Safety & stabilization
    • Teaching about perceived threat and ANS functioning
    • Making sense of symptoms - Shame to self-compassion
    • Self-regulation skill development
      • Interoception
      • Acute relaxation skills
        • Body scan
        • Skeletal vs. musculature body support
        • Peripheral vision
        • Pelvic floor/psoas release
      • Practice
    • Stabilization/intermediate PTSD Treatment
      • Tri-Phasic Model – Safety & Stabilization
      • Case management for Safety
      • More self-regulation techniques
      • Stabilizing sleep with Interception & PMR
      • Anxiety management skills
      • Sensory grounding and abreactive self-rescue
      • Envelope method for containment
      • Mid-treatment assessment: Impairment from Criterion B symptoms
  • Stage III: Desensitization & Integration of Traumatic Memories and Grief
    • Loss, grief & bereavement
    • Grief counseling vs. grief therapy
    • Normal grief – Supportive counseling/passive therapist
      • Listening (not talking)
      • Therapeutic relationship using FIT
      • Psychoeducation/cognitive restructuring
      • Case management
      • Self-regulation
    • (Four) Tasks for mourning
    • Complicated bereavement
      • Perceived threat/ANS dysregulation with loss and grief
      • Complicated Bereavement as thwarted healthy grieving
    • Desensitization & integration for complicated bereavement
      • Therapeutic relationship
      • Relaxation/self-regulation
      • Exposure/narrative
    • Integration for more effective trauma treatments
      • Category A (EBTs for PTSD)
        • Cognitive processing therapy
        • Prolonged exposure
        • Stress inoculation training/direct therapeutic Exposure and other CBT methods
        • Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing
      • Category B
        • Traumatic incident reduction
        • Trauma releasing exercises
        • Hypnosis/neuro-linguistic programming
        • Psychodynamic
        • Group approaches
        • Internal Family Systems
        • Emotional Freedom Techniques/Thought Field Therapy (Tapping)
        • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
      • Category C
        • Brainspotting
        • Accelerated Resolution Therapy
        • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
      • CAM
        • Yoga
        • Martial arts
        • Nutrition
        • Energy psychology
        • Massage
        • Aerobic exercise
      • Narrative Exposure Therapy – 5-Narrative Model
  • Stage IV: Posttraumatic Growth & Resilience
    • Strategies for accomplishing:
      • Sustaining stabilization
      • Self-regulation of physiology
      • Self-regulation of behaviors
      • Self-regulation of emotions
      • Meaning-making
      • Reconnection
    • Posttraumatic growth
      • Spiritual maturation
      • New opportunities
      • Greater strength
      • Greater appreciation
      • New relationships
    • Forward-Facing Trauma Therapy™ - Healing the Moral Wound
      • Self-regulation & DTE
      • Covenant & code of honor
      • Intentional, principle-based living

Objectives

  1. Analyze the 19th and 20th Century approaches that have led to the current state of the art and science in treating posttraumatic stress today.
  2. Discover the common elements for treating posttraumatic stress supported as best practice for treatment of PTSD by leading agencies and organizations.
  3. Integrate an evidence-based treatment approach for trauma using the common elements from multiple trauma treatment modalities.
  4. Articulate and utilize specific evidence-based treatment skills within each of the common elements of treatment that resolve symptoms of posttraumatic stress.
  5. Incorporate the Empowerment & Resilience Treatment Structure for treatment of trauma survivors into your clinical practice.
  6. Adapt psychoeducation and cognitive restructuring techniques for maximizing client engagement and participation in early treatment.
  7. Communicate the symptoms of PTSD to clients in a way that helps makes “good sense” of their experiences, that facilitates self-compassion and helps them to understand their symptoms as adaptations to past painful learning experience instead of a pathological affliction.
  8. Model how to maximize engagement and collaboration in the healing process using evidence based skills with data collection and feedback processing with traumatized clients.
  9. Determine the role that perceived threat and subsequent autonomic nervous system dysregulation plays in the etiology and perseverance of symptoms with trauma survivors.
  10. Evaluate the Polyvagal Theory and how this explanation of ANS functioning assists clients with understanding their symptoms and clinicians to conceptualize tasks of treatment with trauma survivors.
  11. Develop skills of interoception and acute relaxation to selfregulate your own autonomic nervous system to facilitate rapid stress-free living, maximize brain functioning and the ability to act intentionally in all situations.
  12. Teach clients skills for self-regulation of their own autonomic nervous system and then to use these skills to desensitize their anxiety symptoms immediately in their daily lives.
  13. Develop CBT skills for helping trauma survivors to rapidly develop stability, self-efficacy, anxiety management, and relational capacities.
  14. Breakdown the 20 symptoms of PTSD sufficient to make an accurate diagnosis.
  15. Detect empirical markers to know when it is both necessary and safe to transition from the safety/stabilization phase of treatment into the trauma memory processing phase without guesswork and minimal crises.
  16. Model a five-part Narrative Exposure Therapy process to integrate and desensitize trauma memories in a safe and efficient manner.
  17. Develop skills to support and facilitate healthy grieving and healing complicated bereavement.
  18. Incorporate Forward-Facing Trauma Therapy ™ as a self-employed method to facilitate posttraumatic growth and resilience for clients into your clinical practice.

Target Audience

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Therapists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Other Mental Health Professionals, Nurses

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JACQUELINE M

"I learned so much from this conference. The up to date material and handouts for clients will prove invaluable for my practice. Dr. Gentry is passionate about this work."

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