CBT – Narrative Exposure Therapy

🌟 Course Title: Mastering CBT - Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) for Trauma Memory Processing

📚 Course Description: This comprehensive online course is designed for licensed clinicians seeking to integrate the powerful technique of Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) into their practice. Upon completing this course, you will be equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively address PTSD symptoms, particularly focusing on Criterion B: Intrusion symptoms.

🎓 Key Components:

• Understanding Traumatic Stress: Dive deep into what causes traumatic stress and how it resolves, laying the foundation for effective trauma treatment.

• Science-Based Practice: Learn about the Active Ingredients Approach that blends therapeutic relationship, relaxation/self-regulation, exposure/narrative, and cognitive restructuring/psychoeducation to create a potent healing process.

🛡️ Empowerment & Resilience Treatment Structure:

• Stage 1: Preparation & Relationship

  • Establish an informed consent and positive expectancy with your clients.
  • Achieve therapeutic excellence using FIT (Flexible, Interpersonal, and Transformation-oriented) approach.

• Stage 2: Psychoeducation & Skills-building

  • Gain insights into the tools for hope that explain trauma and its symptoms.
  • Understand perceived threat and how it affects the autonomic nervous system.
  • Master skills in self-regulation, complete an exercise to apply these skills, and prepare your client for narrative exposure work.

📖 NET 5: Narrative Exposure Therapy: Learn the Five Steps of NET, including creating a Graphic Time Line, writing a Written Narrative, developing a Pictorial Narrative, verbalizing a Verbal Narrative, and engaging in Recursive Narrative to fully process and overcome trauma.

🎯 Course Objectives:

• Articulate the development of exposure therapy as a primary intervention for PTSD.
• Explain the importance of desensitization and integration of trauma memories.
• Demonstrate the ability to use reciprocal inhibition (exposure + relaxation) to address Criterion B: Intrusion symptoms of PTSD.
• Determine whether your client is a candidate for EMDR and if they have the necessary prerequisite skills to engage in it effectively.
• Implement a checklist to assess when/if clients are eligible for NET.
• Master competency in implementing the Five Narrative Steps of NET with clients experiencing single-incident trauma.

👩‍🏫 Course Features:

• Expert-led instruction by Forward-Facing® Institute, a leader in trauma treatment.
• Interactive modules combining theory and practice.
• Real-world case studies to apply what you learn.
• Access to a community of professionals for support and collaboration.
• Opportunities for self-reflection and skill development.

By completing this course, you will join the ranks of clinicians who are at the forefront of trauma treatment, capable of using NET to help clients rewrite their narratives and move toward healing and growth. 🌱