EP17 Topical Panel 05 - PTSD By Peter Levine, Bill O'Hanlon & Bessel van der Kolk For Immediate Digital Download!

Topic Areas: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) |  Topical Panels |  Trauma |  Psychotherapy
Bundle: EP17 Full Con Audio Download Bundle 2020
Categories: Evolution of Psychotherapy |  Evolution of Psychotherapy 2017
Faculty: Peter Levine, PhD |  Bill O'Hanlon, MS |  Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Course Levels: Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
Format: Audio Only

Tags: Trauma Psychotherapy PTSD Bessel van der Kolk Bill O'Hanlon
 

Description
Every therapist needs a method to work with posttraumatic stress disorder. Fundamental techniques will be discussed. Neurological considerations will be offered.

Educational Objectives:

1. Describe the components of PTSD.
2. Given a patient, create a treatment plan for PTSD.

Faculty
Peter A. Levine, PhD, holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. He is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic, body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute, which conducts SE™ trainings throughout the world and in various indigenous cultures. Some of Dr. Levine’s other achievements include being a stress consultant for NASA during the development of the space shuttle project, as well as a consultant to the Sandia Labs during their report on preventing terrorism commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security in 2002. Dr. Levine was a member of the APA Task Force: Psychologists for Social Responsibility in developing responses to large-scale disasters and ethno-political warfare. He is currently a Senior Fellow and consultant at The Meadows Addiction and Trauma Treatment Center in Wickenburg, Arizona.

Bill O'Hanlon, MS, has written over 30 books, appeared on Oprah with his book Do One Thing Different, and has been a top-rated presenter at psychotherapy conferences all over the world. He was a student of the late Milton H. Erickson and created Solution-Oriented Therapy and Possibility Therapy.

Bessel A. van der Kolk M.D. has been active as a clinician, researcher and teacher in the area of posttraumatic stress and related phenomena since the 1970s. His work integrates developmental, biological, psychodynamic and interpersonal aspects of the impact of trauma and its treatment. His book Psychological Trauma was the first integrative text on the subject, painting the far ranging impact of trauma on the entire person and the range of therapeutic issues which need to be addressed for recovery.