CAPS-5 Training: A Best-Practice Method for Diagnosing PTSD

€245,00

Date: TBA

Time: TBA

Location: Online

Information

A live, one-day online workshop with Dr. Suzy Matthijssen

Step-by-step guidance for administering and interpreting the gold standard in PTSD assessment

As a trauma therapist, you treat PTSD regularly. But how confidently can you assess the finer details of each client's symptoms, document and justify your diagnosis, target the symptoms that matter most, and track progress as treatment unfolds? This workshop gives you a structured, reliable way to do exactly that.

The Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) is the gold standard for PTSD assessment. The CAPS-5 is a 30-item structured interview, typically taking 45 to 60 minutes, that lets you make a current (past-month) or lifetime PTSD diagnosis and assess symptoms over the past week. Alongside the 20 DSM-5 PTSD symptoms, it covers the onset and duration of symptoms, subjective distress, the impact on social and occupational functioning, change since a previous administration, overall response validity, overall severity, and the dissociative subtype (depersonalization and derealization). Each symptom comes with standardized questions and probes, and administration starts from an identified index traumatic event. The Life Events Checklist for DSM-5 (LEC-5) is recommended alongside the Criterion A inquiry already built into the CAPS-5.

Across the day you'll learn to administer the CAPS-5 and put the results to work in treatment planning and evaluation, with detailed guidance on the nuances of administering, scoring, and interpreting this diagnostic tool, plus a live demonstration.

What you'll gain

• A clear, step-by-step method for administering the CAPS-5, the gold standard in PTSD assessment
• Guidance on scoring, interpreting, and documenting each cluster of DSM-5 PTSD symptoms
• A live demonstration of the interview in practice
• Practical know-how for using results in diagnosis, treatment planning, and progress evaluation

Learning objectives

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Explain what a single index trauma is and how it forms the basis for symptom inquiry
• Describe the diagnostic differences between PTSD and CPTSD
• Assess Cluster B symptoms using the CAPS-5
• Assess Cluster C symptoms using the CAPS-5
• Assess Cluster D symptoms using the CAPS-5
• Assess Cluster E symptoms using the CAPS-5
• Describe the key features of the LEC-5 and when to use it
• Explain the purpose and scope of the PCL-5

Presenter:

Suzy Matthijssen PhD. is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. She is Director of the Enhancing Trauma Treatment Institute and Director of the PSYTREC Academy (Research and Training). She is a CBT Consultant & Trainer as well as an EMDR Europe Consultant & EMDR Europe Trainer. Suzy obtained her PhD on innovations in trauma treatment and has extensive experience providing training in EMDR 2.0, (intensive) PTSD treatments, and anxiety disorders. She conducts research and publishes on advancements in the treatment of anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and trauma-related disorders. Suzy is the vice president of the Dutch EMDR association, is a former member of the scientific committee of EMDR Europe, and is the former co-chair of the Council of Scholars; the Future of EMDR project.