Evaluate the strengths, basic objectives, and the delivery of Psychological First Aid, including when and for whom the interventions would be appropriate.
Review the methods used to contact and engage disaster survivors, enhance immediate and ongoing safety, to provide physical and emotional comfort, and to offer practical help to survivors.
Examine ways to help establish brief or ongoing contacts with primary support persons or other sources of support, including family members, friends, and community helping resources, and determine methods to link survivors with available collaborative services needed at the time or in the future.
Identify common psychological reactions to traumatic experiences and losses, particularly the differences in how children, adolescents, adults, and older adults react and cope
Review
the use of Antidepressants, Benzodiazepines, and
Antipsychotic/Atypical Antipsychotic medications in the treatment of
mental health and co-occurring disorders
Discuss the varied clinical picture when there is a co-occurring mental health and substance abuse issue
Examine the current information regarding the use of pharmacotherapy in the treatment of behavioral addictions
Explore historic and well-established contemporary counseling theories, principles and techniques of counseling and their application in professional counseling settings
Discuss the causes of PTSD
Examine PTSD through a strengths-based lens
Identify tools to help patients deal with PTSD symptoms
Define Cognitive Processing Therapy
Explore the 12 Session Protocol for CPT
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