The Diagnosis and Treatment of Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders (2 credit hours)

Program Summary:  This course examines the diagnosis and treatment of trauma and stressor related disorders using the DSM-5 and includes a discussion of reactive attachment disorder, disinhibited social engagement disorder, adjustment disorder, acute stress disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder.  The course explores the following:  characteristics and symptoms, specifiers, impairment and distress, changes in the DSM-5, prevalence, comorbid disorders, differential diagnostic issues, and treatment.  Case presentations are given.

This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and it is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice 

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Reading:  The Diagnosis and Treatment of Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders

Authors:  Eileen E. Joy, MA and Cynthia L. Turk, Ph.D

Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to the diagnosis and treatment of trauma and stressor related disorders.

Learning Objectives:  Describe changes to trauma and stressor related disorders in the DSM-5.  Compare and contrast characteristics and symptoms for the trauma and stressor related disorders.  Identify treatment options for trauma and stressor related disorders.  Identify the components of prolonged exposure therapy.  Describe common barriers to treatment.

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1: The category of trauma- and stressor-related disorders is new to the DSM-5 and includes all of the following except:
 
 
 
 
2: The DSM-5 adds separate criteria for identifying PTSD in children under
 
 
 
 
3: In Reactive Attachment Disorder, the lack of stable attachment is associated with behavioral disturbances that exist before the child is
 
 
 
 
4: Children with RAD appear to respond well to being placed with
 
 
 
 
5: Treatments for RAD should focus on working with the child alone.
 
 
6: Research shows that DSED is characterized by
 
 
7: Although DSED symptoms may persist into school age, there is a significant drop in disinhibited attachment behaviors between _______________ for children adopted from institutionalized care.
 
 
 
 
8: In contrast to RAD, DSED symptoms seem to improve __________ drastically when children are placed in a stable home.
 
 
9: Consistent with limited time frame for diagnosing adjustment disorder, two thirds of those with the diagnosis at 3 months do not continue to have symptoms at _____________.
 
 
 
 
10: Individuals can be diagnosed with acute stress disorder if
 
 
 
 
 
11: Which of the following is an example of a dissociative symptom?
 
 
 
 
12: Which of the following is recommended as the standard treatment for acute stress disorder by the World Health Organization?
 
 
 
 
13: The diagnosis of PTSD includes at least _________  of re-experiencing, avoidance, mood/cognition, and hyperarousal symptoms.
 
 
 
 
14: Approximately half of those with PTSD first developed
 
 
 
 
15: Which of the following is common with PTSD?
 
 
 
 
16: Which therapy is designed specifically for the treatment of PTSD?
 
 
 
 
17: Which of the following is an example of 'accommodation?'
 
 
 
18: Conflicts between pre-existing beliefs and information from the traumatic experience are
 
 
 
 
19: In emotional processing theory, the fear structure is maladaptive and can result in PTSD symptoms when the structure
 
 
20: Remembering the traumatic event by repeatedly describing it out loud in session refers to:
 
 
 
 
21: Read the case example of prolonged exposure therapy starting on page 39.  In this scenario, which of the following activities was introduced during Sarah's first session?
 
 
 
 
22: During her first imaginal exposure, when Sarah shares a feeling the therapist asks:
 
 
 
 
23: As can be seen in Figure 1 on page 46, Sarah's PTSD scores were significantly elevated until session __________________.
 
 
 
 
24: Which of the following treatments involves 2-3 phases, with initial phases focused on building social and emotion-regulation skills in order to prepare clients for later phases focused on processing traumatic memories and consolidating treatment gains?
 
 
 
25: Dialectical behavior therapy was first developed to treat clients with
 
 
 
 
26: An important aspect of exposures and therapy in general is that the client is doing difficult things in a(n) _____________ environment.
 
 
 
 

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Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.

Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course.  She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience.  She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She has practiced for many years in the area of hospital/medical social work.  The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.


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