PTSD & Trauma Counseling Cert + EMDR case study

Explore how PTSD manifests in children, including sleep disturbances, reliving trauma, agitation, mood changes, withdrawal, hyperarousal, and avoidance, with emphasis on variability and misdiagnosis with ADHD.

Explore how men experience PTSD after trauma, including loneliness, difficulty controlling emotions, flashbacks, and how CBT helps address these symptoms.

Explore how ptsd presents in women, where trauma exposure is higher and symptoms like avoidance, hyperarousal, and numbness are more prevalent; learn about the 17-item ptsd checklist.

The video explains how PTSD symptoms and prevalence vary by gender, with women reporting higher rates and longer-lasting symptoms, and men showing more anger and substance use, including nonbinary experiences.

Identify how PTSD triggers arise from the five senses—sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste—and how cues like beards or sunny days can provoke fear and flashbacks.

Identify and understand common PTSD triggers, including media exposure, touch, sounds, tastes, dates of trauma, and words that recall past events, to recognize how reminders provoke fear, memories, and flashbacks.

Explore how the impact (emergency) stage makes trauma survivors feel vulnerable and hypervigilant, and how the denial (numbing) stage leads to emotional suppression and substance risks.

Explore the rescue stage, where recalling trauma brings shock and negative emotions, and the temporary recovery stage, where coping leads to hopeful, short-term improvement, culminating in long-term reconstruction.

Understand complex PTSD as a more intense form of PTSD, with trauma symptoms from violence, neglect, or disassociation, including negative memories, shame, self-harm, social anxiety, loneliness, and relationship challenges.

This case study explores how childhood abuse and neglect shape complex PTSD symptoms like self abandonment, anxiety, loneliness, and shame through John's story.

Explore how trauma alters brain function, linking fear, the prefrontal cortex, and fear circuits to post-traumatic stress disorder and disrupted memory storage.

Diagnose PTSD through physical health screening, psychological evaluation, and DSM-5 criteria, considering direct or witnessed trauma exposure and symptoms lasting over a month with impairment.

Discover how self-care and treatment options, including psychotherapy and medication, help you manage PTSD, address related issues, and regain control through adherence, education, healthy habits, and supportive relationships.

Mental health professionals use primary assessments and the DSM-5 criteria to diagnose PTSD in adults and children. They rule out disorders and evaluate avoidance, negative mood, and hyperarousal with impairment.

Explore CAPS-5, the top eight, and the PTSD symptom scale interview for diagnosing PTSD and symptom severity. Compare DSM-5 and DSM-4 criteria, focusing on intrusion, avoidance, and arousal.

Explore at-home PTSD screening methods, including the trauma scale by Davidson (DTS), the PSL five, and the Sprint, to assess symptoms while seeking professional evaluation.

Explore cognitive behavioral therapy for PTSD, showing how CBT alters negative thoughts to boost mental wellness. Learn about treatments, including medications and talk therapy, with weekly sessions.

Explore prolonged exposure therapy for PTSD, guiding patients to confront traumatic memories through breathing techniques and home recordings, across 8–15 sessions lasting about 90 minutes.

Explore eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (emdr) as a trauma-focused therapy that uses guided movements and sounds to help clients process traumatic memories and regain control of mental wellness.

Learn breathing, muscle relaxation, and positive self-talk to help PTSD patients cope with triggers and anxiety through stress inoculation therapy. Apply these skills in real-life situations.

Explore art therapy as a PTSD treatment using drawing, painting, and music. Rebuild self-esteem and body awareness by expressing trauma through visual narratives.

Explore antidepressants and anxiety-relieving meds for PTSD, including the FDA-approved SSRI pair Central Line and Paroxetine, and note brief use, side effects, and impact on nightmares.

Show how EMDR therapy helps a flight medic with PTSD by guiding him through the eight EMDR phases, lowering SUD from ten to zero, and ending with no lingering symptoms.

Explore the education path, licensing requirements, and essential interpersonal skills to become a PTSD counselor, from bachelor’s to master’s or doctorate, supervised hours, and state-specific licensing.

Explore eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR) fundamentals, origins, and its eight treatment phases for PTSD. Examine case studies and the training and certifications required to practice EMDR.

Explore EMDR therapy, a structured talk therapy using eye movement bilateral stimulation to desensitize and reprocess trauma, with applications for PTSD and beyond.

Trace the history of EMDR from its 1987 discovery by Francine Shapiro to its status as a leading PTSD treatment. Note the pivotal studies and the shift to standardized training.

Explore the criteria for EMDR treatment and how it reprocesses traumatic events to reduce negative thoughts and emotions, improving PTSD, anxiety, phobias, pain disorders, personality disorders, depression, and grief.

Explore how psychological trauma arises from distressing memories, triggers emotions, and can cause flashbacks, anxiety, numbness, and trust changes, with therapy helping reshape responses.

Explore how Emdr treats ptsd, noting its recognition in the 1980s and its effectiveness after 30 years of research, including faster recovery than cognitive behavioral therapy.

EMDR demonstrates strong efficacy for trauma, with multiple randomized studies showing faster relief than CBT, supported by adaptive information processing theory, eye movements, and bilateral stimulation.

Learn how dialectical behavior therapy, or dvt, is applied by psychologists and other professionals using mindfulness, psychotherapy, distress tolerance, and emotional regulation to treat depression and anxiety.

Discover dialectical behavior therapy (dbt) and how its balance of acceptance and change helps manage thoughts, emotions, and actions, while integrating mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy, and related strategies.

Explore dialectical behavior therapy, which treats opposing thoughts as compatible and uses 'and' to foster change. Recognize that everything is interrelated, change is continuous, and opposing forces must be combined.

Trace the history of dialectical behavior therapy, from Marsha Linehan's late-1970s suicide research targeting borderline personality disorder to CBT that emphasizes acceptance and validation.

Expands dialectical behavior therapy beyond borderline personality disorder to treat depression, bulimia, binge eating disorder, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and substance use disorders, including comorbid cases, as illustrated by Jenny’s recovery.

Compare DBT and CBT—CBT targets anxiety, depression, and substance abuse, while DBT aids psychiatric disorders including PTSD—then note EMDR's trauma-focused approach for PTSD.