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The Elephant in the Room:
Treating PTSD When Clinicians Have Negative Reactions to Patients' Sociocultural Views
Abigail Angkaw, PhD and
Brittany Hall-Clark, PhD
Wednesday, April 21 at 2 p.m. ET
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About the Topic
Clinicians may find it stressful or emotionally difficult to provide psychotherapy, including evidence base PTSD treatment, when they have negative reactions to patients’ sociocultural views. This “elephant in the room,” may range from a clinician disagreeing with a patient’s political views to a clinician being offended by a patient’s use of racist language. Such reactions may be particularly common at a time when clinicians and patients experience shared multiple stressful, overlapping, and prolonged events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustice/Black Lives Matter protests, elections, the US Capitol riots, and severe climate events. The goal of this lecture is to offer strategies and suggestions to help PTSD clinicians manage negative reactions to patients’ views and to use a cultural conceptualization of their patients’ sociocultural views to inform PTSD treatment.
About the Presenters
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ABIGAIL ANGKAW, PhD is a consultant for the PTSD Consultation Program, clinical psychologist and Section Chief overseeing a unit of community-based outpatient mental health clinics at the VA San Diego, PTSD Program Director at the VA San Diego, and an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Angkaw specializes in questions related to treatment, assessment, and clinic administration, including Prolonged Exposure (PE), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS-5), measurement-based care, motivation and engagement, and program improvement. Dr. Angkaw is a national PE consultant and a regional mentor in the VA PTSD Mentoring Program. Her primary research interests include PTSD and co-occurring conditions as well as improving the delivery of mental health treatment. As a VA provider and coming from a military family, Dr. Angkaw is personally invested in helping providers through complex clinical and administrative challenges to provide high quality care for Veterans with PTSD. Dr. Angkaw received her PhD from the University of Cincinnati. She completed her predoctoral internship in PTSD and comorbid substance use disorders and her postdoctoral fellowship in combat PTSD research at the University of California, San Diego/VA San Diego.
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BRITTANY N. HALL-CLARK, PhD is a consultant for the PTSD Consultation Program, a Texas-licensed clinical psychologist in private practice, and an Assistant Professor within the Division of Behavioral Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Her clinical specialties include trauma, nightmares, insomnia, sleep, and anxiety. She has been certified as a Master Prolonged Exposure clinician and has extensive experience in working with active duty service members and veterans. She has also been trained in CBT for Insomnia and Nightmares as well as Cognitive Behavioral Conjoint Therapy (CPCT) for PTSD. Dr. Hall-Clark's research interests include acculturative stress, cultural identity, and culturally sensitive treatment. For 8 years, she worked at the Ft. Hood site of STRONG STAR as a cognitive-behavioral research therapist for several randomized clinical trials focused on PTSD and related conditions in active duty military personnel and veterans. She obtained her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Hall-Clark completed a 2-year fellowship with STRONG STAR, a multidisciplinary PTSD research consortium.
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Lecture Series
The PTSD Consultation Program Lecture Series is a free,
live webinar offered on the third Wednesday of every month from 2-3pm ET.
Continuing education credit is available for a variety of professions. (Follow
the registration links above for more details.) The lectures cover a wide
range of topics related to PTSD diagnosis and treatment and common
co-morbidities. Relevant recent research is presented and there is a
focus on the clinical implications for providers and patients.
This monthly lecture series is organized by the PTSD Consultation Program at the VA's National Center for PTSD. Presenters are generally experts in VA who discuss clinical practice in light of the most recent research.
PTSD Consultation Program
The VA PTSD Consultation Program for Providers Who Treat Veterans offers education, information, consultation and other resources to VA and non-VA health professionals who treat Veterans with PTSD. These services provided are consistent with evidence-based practices for PTSD and VA consensus statements such as the VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines for PTSD.
Our goal is to improve the care available to all Veterans with PTSD regardless of where they access services. We offer expert guidance on general issues that come up in the course of caring for Veterans with PTSD. We cannot, however, provide direct guidance or consultation regarding or assume clinical responsibility for specific patients; any potential liability would be only in accordance with the Federal Tort Claims Act.
To ask a question or request consultation email us at PTSDconsult@va.gov or call (866) 948-7880.
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