Posttraumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD webcasts for trauma survivors, counselors, therapists, health professionals and clergy

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Here is a collection of webcasts and podcasts for trauma survivors, caregivers, therapists, clergy, and health professionals. They cover a wide range of topics for the individual wanting to learn about, understand, and cope with abuse, trauma and PTSD. We hope you find them helpful. Please feel free to send us your comments.

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Free Webcasts Featuring Dr. Frank Ochberg

	1. How Does PTSD Affect Brain Function? Exposure to a traumatic event may cause PTSD symptoms. Stress can damage the brain. In this webcast, Dr. Frank Ochberg discusses what happens to the brain after a traumatic event.

	13. Can therapists incorporate the religious beliefs of their patients to help in the healing process? Exposure to a traumatic event may cause PTSD symptoms. Stress can damage the brain.In this webcast, Dr. Frank Ochberg discusses what happens to the brain after a traumatic event.

	2. What is your advice for the survivor looking for a trauma therapist? In this webcast, Dr. Ochberg gives helpful suggestions on how survivors can work with a therapist in order to have a successful therapeutic relationship.

	14. Should spiritual leaders learn about abuse, trauma, and PTSD to help them in their pastoral roles? Frank Ochberg would like members of the clergy to learn about trauma because they are frontline workers and many victims go to their pastoral counselor for help.

	3. What do you say to your clients when they feel they have been retraumatized? Being retraumatized does not necessarily mean you will not be capable of dealing with PTSD symptoms that may reappear.

	15. What is a psychopath? In this webcast Frank Ochberg explains what a psychopath is and why they do not get upset or excited about seeing the pain of others. People exist who are different from us and because they look like us it is potentially deadly to go through this life pretending that these people do not exist.

	4. Are you at risk for more abuse after being a survivor of incest? In this webcast, Dr. Frank Ochberg discusses the incest secret and how it affects relationships.

	16. The Color Wheel: Positive And Negative Emotions In this webcast, Dr. Frank Ochberg discusses a therapeutic tool called The Color Wheel, and how he uses colors to correspond with positive and negative emotions. Dr. Ochberg talks about assigning colors to emotions.

	5. Are trauma survivors more likely to be revictimized? Dr. Ochberg explains that yes a person can be a victim of childhood abuse and suffer more traumatic events but they can get help and therapists can give you tools for recovery.

17. PTSD & Depression: Who is on your Board Of Directors

In this webcast Dr. Frank Ochberg discusses how he helps his PTSD and depressed patients. Many people with PTSD and depression say negative things about themselves to themselves. Dr. Ochberg explains a therapeutic tool he calls "your board of directors." Replacing the negative people on your board of directors with those who are supportive.

6. What can be done to destigmatize PTSD in veterans?

We need to destigmatize, and normalize, symptoms of PTSD. War changes a person. Service members train everyday to serve their country, to fight and win America's wars. Prolonged exposure to hazardous environments, daily exposure to violence and death has a deep affect. There's nothing morally wrong or physically wrong with the person who gets PTSD.

	18. Sexual Abuse And/Or Assault: Advice For Husbands And Significant Others In this webcast, Dr. Frank Ochberg offers advice and suggestions to husbands and significant others about how to be supportive to the women in their lives who have encountered sexual abuse, rape, and assault.

	7. Should PTSD be considered an injury? Frank Ochberg explains why he feels that a person with PTSD deserves to be treated with dignity just as we would treat a person with a physical injury to their arm or leg.

	19. Sexual Abuse And/Or Assault: Advice For Wives And Significant Others In this webcast, Dr. Frank Ochberg offers advice and suggestions to wives and significant others about how to be supportive to the men in their lives who have encountered sexual abuse, and/or assault.

	8. Transition From Military To Civilian Life In this webcast, Dr. Frank Ochberg discusses the veterans transition from military life to civilian life. Guidelines for families and loved ones on how to gauge the normal transition period.

	20. Non-Lethal Triggers For PTSD In this webcast, Dr. Frank Ochberg discusses how non-lethal events can trigger PTSD.

9. Audio Podcast: Practical tips for military families living with combat stress and PTSD.

In this podcast, the founder of Gift From Within, Dr. Frank Ochberg, and the founder of the Military Family Network, Megan Turak, provide military families and extended members of the military family community practical guidelines, actions and skills for dealing with combat stress and PTSD situations.

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	21. Trauma Memories In this webcast, Dr. Frank Ochberg explains the trauma memory, including the verbally accessible memory and the situationally accessible memory.

	10. Nightmares Versus Flashbacks In this webcast, Dr. Frank Ochberg talks about PTSD and the differences between flashbacks and memories.

	22. Surviving Interpersonal Violence: Creating Opportunities for Personal Empowerment Produced by Dr. Janice L. Krupnick and the Center for Trauma & the Community Georgetown University School of Medicine part one \| part two

	11. How can a health professional best support a patient that has been traumatized? In this webcast Dr. Frank Ochberg gives suggestions to health professionals who may not have experience talking to a patient who discloses a traumatic event such as a rape or sexual assault.

23. War Stories From Ward 7-D
This Emmy award winning PBS show takes place at the Polytrauma Unit of the VA medical center in Palo Alto. You will meet four TBI patients who are working to put their lives back together. Only some of them bear obvious wounds, such as a lost eye or a missing part of a skull, but all share in common serious injuries to their brains.
© "WAR STORIES FROM WARD 7-D" is from the KCET Program, "CALIFORNIA CONNECTED" and was produced by KCET/Los Angeles. Website: KCET.org

	12. What is Compassion Fatigue? Compassion Fatigue can develop because even though working with suffering people is rewarding it can also be hard to take sometimes. In this webcast Dr. Frank Ochberg explains the causes, symptoms and methods for coping with compassion fatigue.

Viewer Comments:

"I wish every serviceman or servicewoman and every person in their family would receive an ipod with the podcast "Practical tips for military families" on it as they are returning home. It would be a wish come true."
- Lydia Brewer Manager of the online support group Vetwives Living With PTSD

"Thanks for the wonderful educational programs. I'm a nurse practitioner and these will be helpful in my work at a busy metropolitan emergency room."
- Jeanne Hoffman, NP

"Valuable video clips - excellent resources for our military chaplains."
- Dr. Dave Howard

"I suffer from complex PTSD from childhood trauma and a long abusive marriage. I want to thank you for the webcasts because I found them so validating, inspirational and encouraging. I hope others who hurt like I do will find their way to this page and view these. Thank you for all you do to help us on your wonderful site."
- Patricia, trauma survivor

"I work at a domestic violence agency. The webcasts are super mini classes with great concrete examples. I have found them helpful, easy to access and relevant. I particularly appreciated the webcasts on Sexual Assault: Advice for Husbands and Significant Others, Nightmares vs. Flashbacks, and Non-lethal Triggers for PTSD."
- Stacie Dubay, LMSW

"Your new webcasts are amazing! Great job done on these brief but concise descriptions on trauma issues. You can be sure my clinical team, students and survivors will hear about yet another great resource from Gift Within."
- Connie Saindon, MFT, Founder of the Survivors of Violent Loss Network

"What a fantastic addition to the Gift from Within's website! Not only is this an amazing tool for the work I do but I am going to promote it all over my county. Again, Gift from Within does not disappoint. "
- Daphne O'Hair, Victim Assistance Coordinator

"Thanks so much for offering these healing tools. I appreciate the work that you and Dr. Ochberg are doing to change the field of PTSD. It is so needed."
- Sabrina, trauma survivor

"As a person who has survived trauma and have consistently sought out avenues for healing, the webcasts have provided me with a private way to have my questions answered. Thank you."
- Cindy Lou, trauma survivor

"The Color Wheel webcast is a must for therapists working with clients who are unable to, or have difficulties with articulating their emotions. Delivered in a warm and humorous style by Frank it is easy to see how this intervention could progress clinical work with e.g. the client who has been diagnosed with Aspergers, especially when working with couples in this context. Thank you."
- Joan. Therapist. UK

"This caliber of information is difficult to find elsewhere on the internet and I was starved for any information that would help me understand PTSD. Thank you for this."
- Jeannine, trauma survivor

"I watched your webcast called "Transition from Military to Civilian Life." I am always looking for additional resources that may help members of my command. I now have an additional "tool in my tool bag." Your website has also made me more aware of the diagnosis of PTSD and how to better approach those who may be suffering from it."
- Chris Osborn, Naval Officer

The Board of Directors webcast is wonderful. Dr. Ochberg has a great way of expressing what his clients say to him. He has a way of putting his explanations into terms survivors can understand (our every day language/experience). He doesn't get lost in the clinical/research terminology, and has a good, solid, and calming speaking voice. The webcast made me hungry for MORE!!!! : ) Thanks to you, Joyce, for putting such great supportive tools out there!
- Sab- trauma survivor

These videos are excellent and I have shared them with those who are close to me so we can all learn together. Thank you for creating them in layman's terms so that I can understand and process the information to find greater healing.
- M.A., trauma survivor

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