Medical Trauma: Clinical Tools for Treating PTSD, Anxiety, and Depression Following a Health Crisis

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Sacha McBain, PhD Related seminars and products

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Sacha McBain, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock, AR, where she serves as the associate director of the Center for Trauma Prevention, Recovery and Innovation and leads the Trauma Psychology Consult Service. Dr. McBain provides training and consultation to medical services regarding implementation of trauma-informed care practices and health care worker wellness initiatives designed to prevent posttraumatic stress disorder. She has trained in community health and prevention research and implementation science in order to identify and put into place organizational practices within healthcare systems designed to increase access to mental health care following a traumatic event. She serves as an expert panel member on the American College of Surgeons Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Best Practice Guidelines Work Group and is an active member of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Sacha McBain has an employment relationship with Rush University. She receives grants from NIH/NIMHD and NIH/NIDA. Dr. McBain receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Sacha McBain is a member of the International Society for traumatic Stress Studies.

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For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.

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Objectives

1. Employ evidence-based assessments to identify mental health symptoms stemming from traumatic medical events to inform clinical treatment interventions.
2. Utilize the ecological model of medical trauma to develop a trauma-informed case formulation.
3. Practice at least two strategies for communicating effectively with clients about the mind-body connection for the purposes of improving treatment engagement.
4. Utilize cognitive restructuring on clients’ unhelpful core beliefs and automatic thoughts centered on worth, ability, or control.
5. Construct behavioral experiments designed to assist clients with decreasing reactivity to medical-trauma related cues.
6. Integrate at least two health and rehabilitation psychology strategies into trauma treatment.

Outline

• How to get the full story:
  • trauma interview
  • health-related anxiety
  • distress thermometer
  • comprehensive health history
• Recognize clinical disorders and biopsychospiritual crises

• Experience with initial injury/illness treatment experiences
• Issues in short- and long-term recovery
• “Disenfranchised” nature of medical trauma: how to have conversations with clients about the mind-body connection
• Recalibrate relationships: naming stigma, ableism, and toxic positivity
• Ecological model of medical trauma

• Identify medical trauma-related core beliefs and cognitions
• Engage behavioral strategies
• Address social constraints and systemic invalidation
• Integrate health and rehabilitation psychology principles
  • Illness/injury psychoeducation
  • Meaning making
  • Coping with somatic trauma cues
  • Strategies for managing insomnia and chronic pain
  • Adjustment to illness or injury
  • Expectation management
  • Cognitive rehabilitation
  • Support medical advocacy and avoiding retraumatization
• Limitations of the research and potential risks

• PTSD and COVID-19: 36-year-old woman
• Social anxiety and irritable bowel disease: 20-year-old man
• Dependent personality disorder and congenital heart condition: 45-year-old woman

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychiatrists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Other Mental Health Professionals
• Physicians
• Physician Assistants
• Nurse Practitioners
• Nurses