Important Information
As an approved sponsor of CE and accredited provider of 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, Next Week in Your Practice Sessions, and Capstone Session.
- Complete the CE/CME program evaluation (responses are not mandatory).
- 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 approved sponsor of CE and accredited provider of CME, maintains responsibility for the program and must abide by each board’s continuing education guidelines.
Psychologists
Attention psychologists, this program is available for 5.5 CE credits.
We cannot provide credit for the following modules through our approval by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists:
- How to Help Clients Tolerate Dysregulation and Come Back From Hypoarousal
- How to Work with the Limbic System to Reverse the Physiological Imprint of Trauma
We cannot provide credit for the following main session:
- How to Work with Traumatic Memory That Is Embedded in the Nervous System
NICABM is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). In many states, psychologists may be able to claim 10 CE credits 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 10 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. 3/31/27). This is approved for 10 contact hours.
Nurses
- Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # CEP 17241 (Exp. 3/31/2027), for 10 Contact Hours.
- For the purpose of renewal, the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.
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 10 clock hours.
- Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Approved Provider #50-2010 (Exp. 3/31/27). This is approved for 10 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. 3/31/27). This is approved for 10 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 how traumatic experiences may impact brain regions and networks.
- Identify strategies to help ground a client who dissociates in a session.
- Assess the factors that may contribute to a client’s difficulty with forming secure attachment.
- Describe strategies that can help create a sense of safety with a client who has trouble forming secure attachment as a result of developmental trauma.
- Explain how trauma may affect four types of memory.
- Identify the relationship between traumatic memories and the nervous system.
- Describe how to use therapeutic strategies in a session to address maladaptive responses to trauma.
- Use brain-based approaches to help clients strengthen their ability to self-regulate.
- Distinguish between dysregulation as a symptom of bipolar disorder or trauma.
- Implement trauma-informed interventions to support clients with attachment challenges linked to early developmental adversity.
Release and Termination Dates
Original release date: October 1, 2017
Reviewed: May 1, 2025
Termination date: May 1, 2028
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:
- Joan Borysenko, PhD
- Ruth Buczynski, PhD
- Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD
- Pat Ogden, PhD
- Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT
- Stephen Porges, PhD
- Allan Schore, PhD
- Dan Siegel, MD
- Ron Siegel, PsyD
- Bessel van der Kolk, MD
- Peter Levine, PhD
The planners and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.