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The course: Telehealth and Trauma Treatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Lois Ehrmann

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This 90-minute recording was developed for professional mental health providers who have found themselves quickly adapting to telehealth services during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Join trauma expert and Board Certified Telehealth Health Provider formerly called Distanced Counselor Certification (DCC) Lois Ehrmann, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, CTTS, and learn about the needs of clients during a pandemic as well as the proven strategies to help reduce traumatic stress in your clients. A special focus will be on adapting strategies to the telehealth platform. Numerous resources will be identified and provided.

1. Determine at least three factors contributing to traumatic stress in clients because of the COVID-19 pandemic crises.
2. Utilize interventions that can be adapted to the use of telehealth to reduce traumatic stress in all clients.

Why COVID-19 Pandemic is a Traumatic Event for Our Trauma Clients

• Loss of face to face social networks and familiar stomping grounds
• Threat of death to self, children, neighbors, loved ones
• Impact of psychological distress on the immune system
• Media presentation and coverage of the pandemic
• Loss of face to face professional help making telehealth critical

ADAPTING TRAUMA TREATMENT TO THE TELEHEALTH PLATFORM:

• Work through Past Trauma Events and Now the Trauma of COVID-19 Using Telehealth
  • Clients stress response and basic needs
  • Work through overwhelming sadness, disgust, confusion, fear, anger
  • Adjustment disorders, acute stress reactions, anxiety, phobias, major depression and PTSD
  • Suicidal ideation and suicide risks
  • Seeing clients regress from the stress on the screen
• Apply Interventions from Past Pandemics/Disasters Using Telehealth
  • Post-disaster mental health disorders: Evidence-based strategies
  • Psychosocial support for stages of the illness, during testing periods, and through recovery
  • Traumatic grief/bereavement interventions and directed PTSD interventions
  • Building resilience in individuals, families and communities
  • Interventions for those who are the most vulnerable to COVID-19 or already have it
    • Psychological First Aid for nurses, doctors, health care workers, first responders
    • Older adults and the elderly; Markers to look for and specific strategies
    • Pregnant women, post-partum mothers, mothers with young children
    • Those with underlying health issues such as asthma, diabetes and heart disease