Important Information
As an accredited and approved provider of CE/CME, NICABM requires learners who want CE/CME credit to:
- Verify that you have watched or listened to the complete program, including bonuses, Talkback Sessions, and Next Week in Your Practice Sessions.
- Complete the CE/CME program evaluation.
- Pass the CE/CME quiz with a minimum score of 80%.
A link to the verification, post-program evaluation, and CE/CME quiz will be provided to you at the end of the course.
Accreditation / Approval
NICABM, as the accredited and approved sponsor, maintains responsibility for the program and must abide by each board’s continuing education guidelines.
Psychologists
We do not provide CE credits for this program through our approval by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.
NICABM is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). In many states, psychologists may be able to claim credit for this program because we are accredited by the ACCME. Please ask your state board for advice.
Physicians
- NICABM is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM) designates this enduring material for a maximum of 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Social Workers
- The Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Approved Provider #50-2010 (Exp. 3/31/25). This is approved for 14 contact hours.
Nurses
- Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # CEP 17241 (Exp. 3/31/2025), for 14 Contact Hours.
- NICABM is accredited by the ACCME. Therefore, nurses certified through ANCC are able to use NICABM’s programs to fulfill 50% of their CS requirements.
- This activity meets the criteria for a formally approved American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) activity. NICABM is also an approved provider by the American Psychological Association, which is recognized by the ANCC for behavioral health related activities.
Counselors
- The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5381. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NICABM is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. This program is approved for 14 clock hours.
- Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Approved Provider #50-2010 (Exp. 3/31/25). This is approved for 14 contact hours.
Marriage and Family Therapists
- Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Approved Provider #50-2010 (Exp. 3/31/25). This is approved for 14 contact hours.
Target Audience
This program has been designed for medical and mental healthcare professionals. This course is appropriate for advanced-level practitioners.
Learning Objectives
As a result of participating in this activity, participants will be able to:
- Describe the current understanding of what happens to the brain when people experience trauma.
- List three brain structures that may be altered by traumatic experiences.
- Describe how traumatic experiences can affect the way a client perceives the world.
- Describe the how a client’s attachment history can influence their predisposition or resilience to developing PTSD.
- Explain how to address the impacts on implicit and explicit memory that traumatic experiences can have.
- Create a treatment plan that involves helping clients process traumatic memories without reliving them.
- Identify the type of dissociation a client may be experiencing based on client signs and symptoms.
- Describe the relationship between dissociation and the fight-flight-freeze response.
- List the four dimensions of dissociation according to the 4-D model of dissociation.
- Describe how the age at which a client experienced a traumatic event can affect how their brain is impacted by the traumatic experience.
- Discuss how to integrate EMDR therapy into treatment in order to address attachment ruptures that resulted from a client’s trauma.
- Describe how to work with a client who has difficulty articulating their emotions due to trauma.
Release and Termination Dates
Original release date: July 1, 2016
Reviewed: March 1, 2023
Termination date: March 1, 2026
Disclosures
In accordance with standards established by the organizations that accredit and approve the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM) as a provider of CE/CME courses, we require that individuals in a position to control the content of an educational activity disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible company. The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) defines an “ineligible company” as any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
NICABM mitigates all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to ensure independence, objectivity, balance, and scientific rigor in its CE/CME programming.
The following individuals have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose:
- Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD
- Peter Levine, PhD
- Bessel van der Kolk, PhD
- Stephen Porges, PhD
- Pat Ogden, PhD
- Daniel Siegel, MD
- Sebern Fisher, MA
- Ruth Lanius MD, PhD
- Laurel Parnell, PhD
- Richard Schwartz, PhD
- David Grand, PhD
- Joan Borysenko, PhD
- Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT
The planners and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.