Family Practice: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Audio-Digest Foundation Family Practice Continuing Medical Education (CME). Book 59)

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Family Practice is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information which builds on the AAFP Core Educational Guidelines, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Alcoholism & Substance Abuse
Allergy & Immunology
Cardiovascular Medicine
Conditions of the Eye
Conditions of the Musculoskeletal System
Conditions of the Nervous System
Conditions of the Skin
Care of Adolescents & Older Adults
HIV Infection/AIDS
Human Behavior and Mental Health
Nutrition
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Occupational Medicine
Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
Rheumatology
Risk Management & Medical Liability
Sports and Recreational Medicine
Urgent and Emergent Care

The goal of this program is to improve the recognition and treatment of combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Preserve fitness for duty in patients receiving medication for PTSD.

2: Recommend nonpharmacologic alternatives proven to reduce symptoms of PTSD.

3: Identify potential risk factors for suicide in military personnel.

4: Consider the use of therapy animals in the treatment of patients with PTSD.

5: Reduce unwanted re-experiencing of traumatic memories through therapies involving limited exposure.