Outline

A Brief History and Evolution of Traumatic Stress, Grief & Loss

• Systemic traumatic stress theory
• Symptom review
• Review of effective treatments
• Tri Phasic model
• Most commonly used instruments to assess traumatic stress

Core Competencies of Traumatic Stress, Grief & Loss

Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Factors that Produce Anxiety & Traumatic Stress

• Precipitating events
• Meaning making
• Physiology of Trauma
• Perception

Adaptive and Maladaptive Coping Behaviors

• Trauma Adaptation
• Systemic influences
• Emotional & psychological stressors
• Integrated theoretical concepts from stress, crisis & trauma theories
• Information Processing Model
• Psychosocial Model

Review of Effective Treatment Interventions

• Cognitive Behavioral Techniques (PE, CPT & SIT)
• EMDR & Bilateral Stimulation
• Thought Field Therapy (TFT)/Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
• Sensorimotor

The Biochemical, Affective, and Cognitive Impacts of Traumatic Stress

• Affective volatility
• The body keeps the score
• Biology of traumatic stress

The Impacts of Traumatic Stress Over Time & Across & Within Developmental Stages

• Epigenetics
• Reactive Attachment Disorder
• Adrenal fatigue

The Role of Traumatic Stress in Clinical Disorders such as Personality Disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and More

• Traumagenesis
• Traumaddiction
• Comorbidity

Conceptualizing a Framework of Healing for Survivors of Traumatic Stress

• Systemic perspective
• Strengths perspective
• Survivor metaphor


J. Eric Gentry Ph.D., D.A.A.E.T.S. Related seminars and products: 14

Compassion Unlimited

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J. Eric Gentry, Ph.D., D.A.A.E.T.S., is an internationally recognized leader in the study and treatment of traumatic stress and compassion fatigue. His Ph.D. is from Florida State University, where he studied with Professor Charles Figley – a pioneer of these two fields. In 1997, he co-developed the Accelerated Recovery Program (ARP) for Compassion Fatigue-the world’s only evidence-based treatment protocol for compassion fatigue. In 1998, he introduced the Certified Compassion Fatigue Specialist Training and Compassion Fatigue Prevention & Resiliency Training. These two trainings have demonstrated treatment effectiveness for the symptoms of compassion fatigue, and he published these effects in several journals. He has trained over 100,000 health professionals over the past 20 years.

He is the co-author of Trauma Practice: Tools for Stabilization and Recovery-a critically acclaimed text on the treatment of traumatic stress. He is also the author of the groundbreaking Forward-Facing® Trauma Therapy: Healing the Moral Wound. He is the co-author of Forward-Facing® Professional Resilience: Resolution and Prevention of Burnout, Toxic stress and Compassion Fatigue, Unlocking the Keys to Human Resilience, and Transformative Care: A Trauma-Focused Approach to Caregiving.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: J. Eric Gentry receives compensation as Owner of Compassion Unlimited. He receives royalties as an author for Hogrefo & Huber Publishing. Dr. Gentry receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: J. Eric Gentry has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.