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This training is not sponsored by the Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency
This course equips clinicians with practical, evidence-informed skills for assessing and treating clients in high-exposure professions, including first responders, healthcare workers, mental health clinicians, corrections personnel, military, and other operational roles.
Participants will learn to recognize unique patterns of cumulative stress, moral injury, and autonomic dysregulation while increasing diagnostic accuracy and reducing treatment mismatch. This course integrates assessment, case formulation, and treatment adaptation into a fast-paced, applied learning format.
Objectives:
Differentiate cumulative trauma, moral injury, operational stress, and PTSD presentations in high-exposure populations, including at least three diagnostic distinctions relevant to assessment accuracy.
Identify how autonomic dysregulation, sleep disruption, and shiftwork physiology influence clinical presentation and may mimic psychiatric symptoms.
Apply context-sensitive assessment strategies to a high-exposure case example, including identifying at least two drivers of early disengagement or mistrust.
Develop an evidence-informed treatment plan that aligns with occupational realities by matching intervention pacing and modality to client tolerance and job constraints.
Demonstrate at least two engagement or alliance-building strategies effective for high-exposure clients, while articulating the ethical considerations unique to this population.
Audience: Social Workers, LCPCs, and Psychologists, anyone interested in the subject matter
Location: Virtual
Sponsored By: University of Maryland School of Social Work
Cost: $70.00-$90.00
For questions, email the University of Maryland School of Social Work at cpe@ssw.umaryland.edu