Cultural Clinical Psychology and PTSD

Cultural Clinical Psychology and PTSD is organized by Ce4Less.

ASWB Approval Period: 08/08/2018 - 08/08/2021

Accreditation:
CE: 10.0 hours

Course Overview:
How to provide culturally sensitive care for clients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related disorder This book, written and edited by leading experts from around the world, looks critically at how culture impacts on the way posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related disorders are diagnosed and treated. There have been important advances in clinical treatment and research on PTSD, partly as a result of researchers and clinicians increasingly taking into account how culture matters.

Learning OBjectives:
• Explain strategies to integrate culture into clinical care.
• Recognize the variability of PTSD across cultures.
• Discuss limitations in culturally relevant research on PTSD.
• Describe cultural phenomenon related to the history of medicalized distress.
• Explain cultural phenomenon related to metaphors of trauma and posttraumatic growth.
• Identify cross-national patterns in PTSD.
• Describe cultural adaptations to treatment.