CBT – Narrative Exposure Therapy
What you'll learn
- Participants will be able to articulate the development of exposure therapy as a primary intervention for treating post-traumatic stress.
- Participants will be able to explain the importance of desensitization and integration of trauma memories for the resolution of PTSD.
- Catalyze the principles of reciprocal inhibition (exposure + relaxation) to desensitize the distress associated with Criterion B: Intrusion symptoms of PTSD.
- Participants will be able to implement a checklist to determine when/if clients are eligible for NET.
- Participants will learn, practice, and develop competency implementing the Five Narrative NET method with single-incident trauma.
Requirements
- No Prerequisites
Description
This course teaches licensed clinicians the knowledge and skills they need to integrate the safe and effective use of the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy technique of Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) into their practice immediately following the completion of this course. This course thoroughly teaches the skills for utilizing NET to address symptoms of PTSD—specifically focusing upon ameliorating Criterion B: Intrusion symptoms.
What causes Traumatic Stress/What has to happen for its resolution
Active Ingredients Approach – Science-based Practice
Therapeutic Relationship
Relaxation/Self-regulation
Exposure/Narrative
Cognitive Restructuring/Psychoeducation
Empowerment & Resilience Treatment Structure
Preparation & Relationship
Self-regulation & Skills-building
Integration & Desensitization
Posttraumatic Growth & Resilience
Stage 1: Preparation & Relationship
Informed Consent
Positive Expectancy
Therapeutic Excellence using FIT
Stage 2: Psychoeducation & Skills-building
Tools for Hope: What’s Behind Trauma and Its Symptoms
Perceived Threat
Autonomic Nervous System
Skills: Self-regulation
Exercise: Self-regulation
NET 5 Narrative Exposure Therapy
Graphic Time Line
Written Narrative.
Pictorial Narrative
Verbal Narrative
Recursive Narrative
Course Objectives:
Participants will be able to articulate the development of exposure therapy as a primary intervention for treating post-traumatic stress.
Participants will be able to explain the importance of desensitization and integration of trauma memories for the resolution of PTSD.
Participants will be able to demonstrate ability to catalyze the principles of reciprocal inhibition (exposure + relaxation) to desensitize the distress associated with Criterion B: Intrusion symptoms of PTSD.
Participants will be able to demonstrate competency in determining whether your client is a good candidate for EMDR and to ascertain whether your client has acquired all the prerequisite skills to effectively engage EMDR.
Participants will be able to implement a checklist to determine when/if clients are eligible for NET.
Participants will learn, practice, and develop competency implementing the Five Narrative NET method with single-incident trauma.
Who this course is for:
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Instructor
What is Forward>Facing®? Forward-Facing is a unique process for resolving our painful past while living a principle-based life here in the present. It is the marriage of science-based self-regulatory skills paired with resilient intentional living. Engaging these skills lowers stress symptoms while simultaneously enhancing quality of life and well-being. The skills are deceptively simple and easy to implement. Anyone can learn them in a short period of time…and then work the rest of our lives to master them. While Forward-Facing is a bona fide protocol for addressing and resolving traumatic stress, it is equally effective for developing stress-management, resilience and optimization skill for professionals, parents, couples, athletes and performers.
J. Eric Gentry, Ph.D., LMHC, D.A.A.E.T.S. is the founder of the Forward>Facing® Institute. Dr. Gentry is a board-certified and internationally recognized leader in the study and treatment of traumatic stress and compassion fatigue. His doctorate is from Florida State University where he studied with Professor Charles Figley—a pioneer of these two fields. In 1997, he co-developed the Accelerated Recovery Program (ARP) for Compassion Fatigue—the world’s only evidence-based treatment protocol for compassion fatigue. Dr. Gentry was original faculty, curriculum designer and Associate Director of the Traumatology Institute at Florida State University. In 2001, he became the co-director and moved this institute to the University of South Florida where it became the International Traumatology Institute. In 2010, he began the International Association of Trauma Professionals. He has trained tens of thousands of professionals to more effectively treat traumatic stress. In 2005, Hogrefe and Huber published Trauma Practice: Tools for Stabilization and Recovery—a critically acclaimed text on the treatment of traumatic stress for which Dr. Gentry is a co-author. The third edition of this text was released in 2015. In 2016 He released his revolutionary Forward-Facing Trauma Therapy book. He is the author of numerous chapters, papers, and peer-reviewed journal articles in the areas of traumatic stress and compassion fatigue. Dr. Gentry is a licensed psychotherapist with over 33 years of clinical practice. He is the CEO and owner of Compassion Unlimited-- a private psychotherapy, training, and consulting practice.