Course Outline:
Session 1
Assessment & Diagnosis of Stress-related psychological disorders
including sacrifice syndrome, compassion fatigue and caregiver burnout
but It will omit biological reactions to trauma
but add assessment of stress & resiliency
Session 2
Attributional styles
· Risk factors: ambiguity, comorbidity
· Survivor of Death
· Dissociative characteristic: flash backs
· Post-Traumatic Character Changes
· Body memory, emotion, and behaviors
· Criminal based victims vs. natural and accident issues
· Terrorists’ victims
Session 3.
Complicated PTSD:
a. complex PTSD,
b. post-traumatic embitterment disorder
+/- logotherapy (link with Christian faith) (by Dr. KY Mak)
Session 4 and 5
Treatment considerations
Cognitive/meanings focused, emotional based focused, behaviour based, medical based
• Managing flashbacks
• The reprocessing of narrative
• Hypnotic skills
• Exercises and stress reduction
• Healing work
• Inner child
• EMDR
• Supportive carers
• Self-hypnotic intervention
• Children and elderly
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