Continuing Education
Continuing Education
This section brings together free in-depth Continuing Education resources for the Professional community concerned with trauma.
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- Date Created: 02/ 6/2025
- Time to Complete: 1 hour
- Credits: ANCC, APA, ASWB, ACCME, NBCC, Other Orgs
- Skill Level: Intermediate
- Course Series: PTSD 101, PTSD Consultation Lecture Series
Written Exposure Therapy (WET) is a manualized trauma-focused evidence-based psychotherapy for PTSD. WET was developed as a brief, more tolerable treatment that is easily trained and disseminated to clinicians who work with PTSD patients. Due to its brevity (5 sessions) and flexibility, it can be used in a variety of clinical settings.
This online course provides information about the development of WET, the evidence showing its effectiveness, and how to implement the treatment in clinical practice.
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- Date Created: 02/ 6/2025
- Time to Complete: 1 hour
- Credits: ANCC, APA, ASWB, ACCME, NBCC, Other Orgs
- Skill Level: Intermediate
- Course Series: PTSD 101, PTSD Consultation Lecture Series
End-of-life care, often delivered in palliative or hospice settings, helps patients have a death that involves minimal pain and suffering as well as optimal emotional well-being and quality of life. For patients with pre-existing PTSD, chronic symptoms, or a flare of symptoms during EOL can complicate the dying process for patients and their loved ones.
This online course for interprofessional health care teams will help clinicians working with patients at EOL to think through how PTSD may present at end of life, and how they may assess for and help patients address PTSD in this unique context.
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- Date Created: 01/ 6/2025
- Time to Complete: 1 hour
- Credits: ANCC, APA, ASWB, ACCME, NBCC, Other Orgs
- Skill Level: Intermediate
- Course Series: PTSD 101, PTSD Consultation Lecture Series
Accurate and comprehensive assessment of PTSD is essential to understand a patient’s clinical presentation and to support evidence-based treatment. Information in this course stems from VA’s PTSD Consultation Program requests.
This online course reviews frequently asked questions related to PTSD assessment and diagnosis. Topics include Criterion A trauma, PTSD symptoms, measurement tools, providing empathic feedback on assessments, and common patient presentations. Research, literature, and resources associated with PTSD assessment are reviewed.
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- Date Created: 01/ 6/2025
- Time to Complete: 1 hour
- Credits: ANCC, APA, ASWB, ACCME, NBCC, Other Orgs
- Skill Level: Intermediate
- Course Series: PTSD 101, PTSD Consultation Lecture Series
PTSD commonly occurs among primary care patient. Research demonstrates that most primary care patients with PTSD do not receive adequate PTSD treatment. Evidence-based screenings and treatments for PTSD are appropriate for the primary care setting.
This online course details screening methods and describes several brief treatments for PTSD, including their evidence base and implementations status. Strategies for shared decision-making on when to treat in primary care and when to refer to specialty mental health settings are discussed.
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- Date Created: 12/31/2024
- Time to Complete: 1 hour
- Credits: ANCC, APA, ASWB, ACCME, NBCC, Other Orgs
- Skill Level: Intermediate
- Course Series: PTSD 101, PTSD Consultation Lecture Series
Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. Despite significant declines in cigarette use in the general and Veteran populations, tobacco use remains relatively high, especially among Veterans with PTSD. Evidence indicates that tobacco use exacerbates symptoms of PTSD and smoking cessation reduces symptoms of depression and anxiety.
After reviewing the relationship between PTSD and nicotine dependence, this online course provides the basic tenets of behavioral counseling for treating tobacco dependence. The author discusses the role of the clinician across different states of behavior change to support PTSD providers who may not have prior training in these skills.
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