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Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation (STAIR)
Continuing Education
This section brings together free in-depth Continuing Education resources for the Professional community concerned with trauma.
Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation (STAIR)
- Date Created: 08/30/2013
- Time to Complete: 8 hours
- Credits: ANCC, APA, ASWB, ACCME, NBCC, Other Orgs
- Skill Level: Advanced
- Course Series: Clinical Skills Training
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Description
Learn how to provide STAIR to your patients. STAIR a promising intervention with evidence suggesting that it helps reduce PTSD symptoms, and problems in emotion regulation and social and relationship functioning.
Using STAIR will allow you to teach your patients skills in:
- emotion regulation
- interpersonal functioning
This online STAIR training consists of 8 modules covering several core treatment components. STAIR can be provided as a standalone therapy or as a complement to trauma-focused therapies. Modules 1-8 need to be completed for CE/CME credits. On TRAIN, the course is divided into three main sections which need to be completed in sequential order.
Goals and Objectives
- To become informed about the impact of trauma on emotion regulation and social (interpersonal) functioning
- To be able to identify at least one strategy that increases emotional awareness
- To be able to identify at least three strategies that improve emotion regulation in PTSD patients
- To be able to formulate interpersonal schemas related to problematic social and interpersonal functioning
- To be able to develop and test alternative interpersonal schemas with client
- To learn at least two strategies for effective assertiveness behaviors
- To learn at least one strategy for improving flexibility in interpersonal expectations and behaviors
