Continuing Education
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This course provides an introduction to Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for clinicians who are interested in learning more about this treatment and how to apply it to veteran population. Research has indicated that CPT is an effective treatment for PTSD, leading the VA to select it as one of two therapies required in a national initiative to train VA clinicians in empirically-supported treatments for PTSD. CPT is a 12-week, structured therapy that helps patients understand the ways their thinking about themselves, the world and others has been impacted by their traumatic event. Although exposure is part of this therapy, it largely focuses on helping patients’ challenge their thinking patterns, especially around issues of safety, trust, control, esteem and intimacy. This course will provide an overview of the theory and research behind CPT, as well as a session-by-session guide on how to conduct this therapy with veterans. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of how to utilize Socratic questioning, identify stuck points, employ challenging questions effectively, identify patterns of problematic thinking and support patients’ in challenging their PTSD-related thinking patterns. This class can be taken as a standalone or as part of our Treatment Strategies for Returning Troops workshop series. Click here for information about the series. Instructor Biography  Gretchen Lindner, PhD, completed her doctoral training at Georgia State University and her internship at the Palo Alto VA Health Care System (PAVA). She also completed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship with the SFVA’s PTSD Clinical Team, specializing in the treatment of OIF/OEF veterans. Gretchen currently works with the PAVA PTSD Clinical Team treating veterans with war-related stress reactions. Her approach to treatment incorporates cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, psychodynamic and family systems perspectives, and she provides individual, group, and family therapy.
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