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Introducing PTSD Treatments to Your Patient: Learning from the Patient Perspective

Sadie Larsen, PhD and Lisa Cuccurullo, PsyD

Wednesday, April 17 at 2:00pm ET

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About the Presenters

SADIE LARSEN, PhD is a clinical psychologist on the Education Team at the National Center for PTSD and an Associate Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Larsen specializes in Prolonged Exposure (PE) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and is interested in helping clinicians provide evidence-based treatment while navigating the nuances of particular cases and the administrative and other challenges that come with systems change. Dr. Larsen has served as the Local Evidence Based Psychotherapy Coordinator and founder/lead of the Evidence Based Psychotherapy clinic at the Milwaukee VA. Her primary research interests involve better understanding variation in response to evidence-based treatments for PTSD, cognitive and emotional processes that maintain or alleviate PTSD symptoms, and the unique experiences of Veterans and of men and women who experience interpersonal and sexual trauma. Dr. Larsen received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

LISA-ANN CUCCURULLO, PsyD is a clinical psychologist and consultant with the PTSD Consultation Program and Lead Implementation Strategic Advisor with the PTSD Mentoring and Implementation Program. Her clinical work has focused on cognitive behavioral treatments for PTSD and other post-trauma related symptoms. She is trained in Cognitive Processing Therapy and is a consultant in the VA's national rollout of Prolonged Exposure. Prior to her position at the National Center for PTSD, she was the Military Sexual Trauma Coordinator and Assistant Director of Psychology Clinical Training at the Southeast Louisiana Veteran's Health Care System, and a clinical instructor at Tulane University School of Medicine. Dr. Cuccurullo's current research interests focus on implementation of empirically supported treatments and posttraumatic symptom presentation. Dr. Cuccurullo received her doctorate in clinical psychology from La Salle University.

About the Topic

This presentation will help providers to think about how best to communicate with patients about PTSD treatment options in a way that will encourage patient autonomy and consideration of best practice treatments. Results of new studies that examined patient perspectives on how providers talk with their patients about PTSD treatments, as well as how patients and consumers interpret treatment names, descriptions, and concepts, will be shared. The talk will use a framework of Shared Decision-Making (SDM), which is increasingly recognized as a best practice when deciding on treatment options, yet very few studies have examined how best to conduct SDM in a mental health context. This presentation will provide an overview of the tenets of SDM and the studies of SDM in the context of PTSD.

Upcoming Lectures

May 15: Addressing PTSD and Moral Injury through PE and CPT
Sonya Norman, PhD and Jennifer Wachen, PhD

June 19: No lecture, Juneteenth holiday

July 17: PTSD Assessment: Frequently Asked Questions
Abigail Angkaw, PhD

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Psychedelics-Assisted Therapy for PTSD

Psychedelics are being increasingly researched as a novel method of augmenting the effectiveness of psychotherapies for the treatment of mental health conditions. The most studied psychedelics to date include psilocybin and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA). This article focuses on the use of psilocybin- and MDMA-assisted therapy (P-AT and MDMA-AT) for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Veterans.

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Free Resources

Community Provider Training in Assessment of PTSD and Suicide Risk

We are partnering with the Suicide Risk Management Consultation Program and the Center for Deployment Psychology to offer 2-day online trainings to licensed mental health providers who treat Veterans.

Our comprehensive training, led by a team of expert clinicians, will cover:

Military culture
How to assess and diagnose PTSD
Essential treatment recommendations
How to identify and assess suicide risk
Lethal means safety
Safety planning

Free continuing education credit will be available to those who complete the entire training.

Two options are available in 2024:

June 5-6
August 14-15

All sessions are Wednesday & Thursday 10am-6:30pm ET

LEARN MORE & APPLY ONLINE

VA and other federal government employees are not eligible for this training but can contact us about other training options.

Treatment Engagement

We offer several free resources to help providers engage their clients in PTSD treatment. The two pages linked below are designed to help providers make use of two of our key educational resources. As always, providers who have questions about any of this can use the PTSD Consultation Program.

Using the PTSD Treatment Decision Aid with Your Patients
Learn how to use this online decision aid to help your patients make informed decisions about their PTSD treatment.
Using AboutFace: Real PTSD Stories
Find out how to use the AboutFace online video gallery with your patients.

Online Course

This course introduces providers to a practical model of shared decision making that can be used in clinical practice with PTSD patients.

Shared Decision-Making for PTSD

Are you treating U.S. Veterans?

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Our team of expert clinicians is available to consult with any healthcare provider treating U.S. veterans in any setting.

We can discuss assessment, diagnosis, psychotherapy, medications, collaborating with VA care, patient and family education, continuing education, and just about anything else related to veterans and PTSD.

No question is too big or too small.

www.ptsd.va.gov/consult

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