Star Behavioral Health Program Tier III: Prolonged Exposure Therapy
The Returning Veterans Project is proud to partner with the Oregon National Guard to bring the Star Behavioral Health Program free of charge to providers in the state of Oregon.
Location: Online
Continuing Education: 14 Clinical CE Credits (Applied at NASW)
Cost: Free. Open to all health service providers and community members
Who Should Attend: This training is open to all RVP Volunteer Providers, social workers, mental health counselors, and community providers who have completed a Tier II training.
What You Will Learn:
Tier III trainings offer behavioral health professionals specific clinical skills that focus on evidence-based treatment to address specific behavioral health issues facing service members. Tier III trainings are two-day workshops offered in-person and online. Participants must attend both days in their entirety. To attend Tier III trainings, you must be accepted into the registry and have completed Tier I and Tier II. You may, however, register for the training after completing a Tier II before being accepted into the registry in order to reserve your spot.
Learning Objectives
- Develop a theoretical conceptualization of a client’s PTSD symptoms to guide treatment planning.
- Communicate a rationale for Prolonged Exposure Therapy that builds rapport, improves client motivation, and increases treatment adherence.
- Determine how common reactions to trauma relate to the symptoms of PTSD and articulate how these reactions impact client functioning.
- Demonstrate an effective method of breathing that reduces client arousal and promotes distress tolerance.
- Construct an individualized avoidance hierarchy designed to systematically confront core fears.
- Implement in vivo exposure to block trauma related avoidance.
- Facilitate imaginal exposure to reduce the intensity and frequency of PTSD symptoms.
- Utilize specific skills to manage emotional engagement to increase the effectiveness of imaginal exposure.
- Structure homework assignments that deepen exposure-based learning and further treatment goals.
- Distinguish “hot spots” in the trauma memory in order to more efficiently reduce the intensity of associated symptoms.
- Analyze exposure exercises to facilitate new learning and modify client’s unhelpful, trauma-based cognitions.
- Incorporate new learning to revise unhelpful cognitions that promote avoidance and maintain symptoms.
- Assess Prolonged Exposure Therapy outcomes using standardized procedures and use assessment data to refine treatment planning.
- Adapt exposure techniques in a theoretically consistent manner to improve accessibility and clinical outcomes for specific patients.
CE Faculty
Paula Domenici, Ph.D.
Paula Domenici, Ph.D., is Director of Training and Education at the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She oversees the development of courses and training programs for providers on evidence-based treatments for Service members and Veterans. She also presents workshops on deployment behavioral health topics for clinicians across the country. Dr. Domenici specializes in trauma and the treatment of PTSD using Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE). When she first joined CDP in 2006, she worked at the National Naval Medical Center in the outpatient clinic and inpatient casualty care unit. Earlier in her career, she was an APA Congressional Fellow as well as a Staff Psychologist at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Registration for this training occurs directly through the Star Behavioral Health Program.
Contact: RVP Staff .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
503-954-2259
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