Contact Hours: 6

This multimedia course is based in part on Counselor Toolbox Podcasts 41 and 156.  Text-based materials are also provided in the course for those who prefer to learn by reading.

Instructor: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP

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Objectives:

• Explore historic and well-established contemporary counseling theories, principles and techniques of counseling and their application in professional counseling settings
• Explore the causes of PTSD
• Examine PTSD through a strengths-based lens
• Identify tools to help patients deal with PTSD symptoms
• Define complex trauma
• Examine complex trauma from a developmental and strengths-based lens
• Identify interventions to help patients acquire the skills to mitigate the impact of complex trauma