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VA/DOD Clinical Practice Guideline for

The Management Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder And Acute Stress Disorder

By the VA/DOD Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense

VA/DOD Clinical Practice Guideline for The Management Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder And Acute Stress Disorder

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Learning Objectives

After this class, the clinician will be able to:

1. List steps in triaging and managing acute traumatic stress.

2. List how to provide routine screening for trauma and related symptoms.

3. Evaluate diagnoses of trauma syndromes and co-morbidities

4. Enumerate medical disorders/symptoms, mental health disorders, and psychosocial problems that commonly coexist with PTSD.

5. List how to screen for depression, suicidality and other psychiatric comorbidities in the PTSD population.

6. Enumerate how to assess patterns of current and past use of substances by persons with trauma histories or PTSD to identify substance misuse or dependency (alcohol, nicotine, prescribed drugs, and illicit drugs).

7. Demonstrate tools to assess pain (acute and chronic) and sleep disturbances in patients with PTSD.

8. List tools to assess and include in the treatment plan high-risk behaviors (e.g., smoking, alcohol/drug use, unsafe weapon storage, dangerous driving, unprotected sex, needle sharing, human immunodeficiency virus [HIV], hepatitis risks) that can occur in patients with PTSD.

9. Evaluate and analyze evidence-based management of trauma-related symptoms and functioning.

10. List proactive strategies to promote resilience and prevent trauma-related stress disorders.

Who Should Attend

To receive credit students must

Register for the course (order on-line or call toll-free 888-777-3773), after which you will receive the course material and the post-test.
The course consists of reading the VA/DOD Clinical Practice Guideline for The Management Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder And Acute Stress Disorder which is included as a PDF

Pass the post-test
Upon passing the test, print out your own certificate of completion!

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You will receive instructions, via e-mail, on how to take your test online.

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Your test will be graded online, so the moment you have passed, you may print out your certificate of completion.

That's it! You are done!

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Cost of the 10 CE course is $120, which includes the ebook

To read the material, without any post-test or credits go to:
VADoDPTSDCPGFinal.pdf