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CBT practitioners often feel uncertain about how to treat Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following rape and sexual assault. There are many myths and rumours about what you should and should not do. All too frequently, this uncertainty results in therapists avoiding doing trauma-focused work with these clients. Whilst understandable, this means that the survivor continues to re-experience being raped over and over again. Moreover, it means that survivors of rape are denied effective treatment for their PTSD.
The aim of the webinar is for CBT practitioners to feel more confident in delivering effective trauma-focused therapy to this client group. The session will briefly consider how to assess and formulate PTSD following a rape in adulthood, then how to deliver Cognitive Therapy for PTSD (CT-PTSD; Ehlers and Clark, 2000). It aims to be a practical, ‘how to’ guide for therapists, drawing on decades of clinical experience in this area.
The webinar will cover both client and therapist factors when working with memories of rape. To aid learning, the focus will be on a single rape in adulthood. However, much of what will be covered will also be useful for working PTSD to multiple rapes in adulthood, and with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse presenting with PTSD and other co-morbid psychological difficulties, such as psychosis, depression and substance misuse.This webinar is suitable for CBT therapists and psychologists aiming to feel more confident in their treatment of PTSD arising from sexual assault.
1. To understand the importance of providing effective, trauma-focused therapy for survivors of rape in adulthood who are experiencing symptoms of PTSD.
2. To be able to assess and formulate PTSD following a rape in adulthood.
3. To be able to deliver CT-PTSD with this client group.
4. To find out how to manage the dissociation common in this client group.
5. To be able to select and choose appropriate cognitive, behavioural and imagery techniques to help with feelings of shame, responsibility, anger, disgust, and contamination.
6. For therapists to learn how best to support their own ability to cope with working in a trauma-focused way with survivors of rape and sexual violence.
Dr Sam Akbar is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and PTSD specialist working at the Woodfield Trauma Service in London. The service offers evidence-based psychological assessment and treatment to hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers suffering from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and is seen as a model of good practice throughout the UK.
Sam trains and supervises nationally and internationally on how to treat PTSD, Complex PTSD and working with refugees, as well as on using mental imagery techniques.
Sam is now part of a group of highly experienced psychologists recently commissioned by the UK government to train psychologists across the United Kingdom in how to treat PTSD in refugees. She is also the author of 'Stressilient: How To Beat Stress and Build Resilience', an ACT-based self-help book.
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