Clinical Disorders (Adult) Category

Trauma Assessments: A Clinician's Guide

12 CE Hours
60 members have taken this course

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About the Course

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, counselors, social workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about psychological trauma. Whether unfamiliar or familiar with some of the concepts involved in this material, you can benefit from information in this course.
Dr. Eve Carlson provides clinicians with an up-to-date and comprehensive resource on psychological trauma, its symptoms, and the various factors related to severity and outcome. It provides information and guidance needed to understand, measure and respond to psychological trauma and its effects. The book addresses both conceptual and practical aspects of selecting and administering different trauma measures, and provides guidelines for interpreting results.

This course is based on the book, Trauma Assessments: A Clinician’s Guide created by Carlson, Eve, Ph.D.

Course Material Author

Carlson, Eve, Ph.D.
Eve Carlson, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and a Research Health Science Specialist with the Education and Clinical Laboratory Division of the National Center for PTSD in Menlo Park, California. She specializes in trauma research methodology and assessment of traumatic experiences and trauma-related symptoms and disorders.

Carlson, Eve, Ph.D. authored the material only, and was not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. 1 use and interpret the results of structured interviews for traumatic experiences, PTSD, and dissociative disorders.
  2. 2 use and interpret the results of self-report scales for traumatic experiences, PTSD, and dissociative disorders.
  3. 3 to be able to maximize your effectiveness in evaluating traumatized patients while minimizing bias from patient and interviewer expectations.
  4. 4 to be able to understand how the relationships between traumatic experiences, moderating factors, and later symptoms should inform the evaluation process.

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Commercial support

There is no commercial support for this distance-learning course.

$86.40

Course Details

12 CE Hours
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Course 4230

Availability

This course is retired. It is no longer available.

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