Videos on Trauma and PTSD

For Mental Health Care and Other Providers

Assessment

• PTSD: Assessment of Traumatic Experience & Responses
  While potentially critical to a treatment plan, assessing traumatic experiences and responses can be challenging. This video addresses this challenge.
  
• Understanding the C & P PTSD Examination Process
  A panel discussion about the Compensation and Pension process at the VA. It is intended to help mental health professionals and claims raters.
  
• Trauma Exposure, PTSD and Violence
  This video informs clinicians about the 'cycle of violence' and how to evaluate violence exposure and violent behavior.
  

Other topics

• Children and Trauma
  Information also applicable to educators, on the impact of trauma on children and schools, normal and prolonged stress responses, assessment considerations, and intervention models.
  
• Hope for Recovery
  An educational video about PTSD for veterans and their family members as well as for caregivers....
  
• Psychopharmacology of PTSD
  A video for Mental Health Care Providers on medications for PTSD and the mechanisms involved.
  
• PTSD, Allostatic Load and Medical Illness
  This video is to further develop practitioners' clinical knowledge and skills concerning psychobiological models of chronic stress and PTSD that are risk factors for medical illness.
  
• Readiness to Change in PTSD Treatment
  This video reviews the treatment of combat-related PTSD in relation to the concept of "readiness to change".
  
• Surgeon General's Speech on PTSD and Enhancing Primary Care
  This video covers a speech by Surgeon General Richard Carmona in 2002 and deals with bringing more PTSD care into primary care settings.
  
• Trauma Exposure, PTSD and Violence
  This video informs clinicians about the 'cycle of violence' and how to evaluate violence exposure and violent behavior.
  
• The New Warrior: Combat Stress and Wellness: Provider Perspectives
  A video that addresses the unique issues service members deployed for the global war on terror face.
  
• Women Who Served in Our Military: Insights for Interventions: Provider Perspectives
  A video to help providers in their work with female veterans.
  

Specific to Ethnic Minorities

• Combat on Many Fronts: Latino Veterans and Family: Provider Perspectives
  This video is to help providers, veterans and others understand the history and cultural issues of Latino Americans and learn how we can best serve these veterans.
  
• PTSD Among Asian-American and Pacific Islander Veterans: for Providers
  This video is to help providers by increasing awareness of the cultural aspects of PTSD care when provided to Asian American Veterans.
  
• War on Many Fronts: African American Veterans with PTSD: for Providers
  This video is to increase clinicians' awareness of the cultural aspects of PTSD care when provided to African American Veterans.
  
• Wounded Spirits, Ailing Hearts: PTSD and the Legacy of War Among American Indian & Alaska Native Veterans
  A video for Health Care Providers about PTSD in American Indians.
  
• Wounded Spirits, Ailing Hearts: PTSD and the Legacy of War Among American Indian & Alaska Native Veterans
  A video for Mental Health Care Providers about PTSD in American Indians.