Contact Hours: 1
Instructor: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Objectives
- Characteristics of pain
- Effects of pain
- Understanding Your Pain
- Exacerbating factors
- Mitigating factors
- Medical Interventions
- Nonmedical Interventions
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
The Neurobiological Impact of Psychological Trauma: The HPA-Axis
Based in part on the following article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182008/pdf/DialoguesClinNeurosci-13-263.pdf
• The biology of PTSD
• The origin of neurobiological abnormalities in PTSD
• Risk and resilience for developing PTSD
• What the therapist can do
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
PTSD: Exploring the Adaptive Nature of Symptoms and Interventions
• Reliving the event
• Avoidance of reminders of the event
• Negative changes in beliefs and feelings
• Hyperarousal
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
• Define Relapse
• Discuss the important of relapse prevention planning in the initial assessment
• Identify the bio-psycho-social causes of (exacerbating factors) and interventions for (mitigating factors) relapse in the first stage of treatment (0-3 months)
o Biological Issues
o Mood/Psychiatric Issues
o Social Issues
o Environmental Issues
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Instructor: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC
Objectives:
- Explain the principles of Internal Family Systems Theory
- Discuss the concepts of the Parts in IFS
- Explore ways to use IFS in counseling
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes