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Diagnosing PTSD, Adjustment, Generalized Anxiety and Panic Disorders
by Jason Buckles

How can clinicians obtain essential diagnostic information while establishing and maintaining therapeutic rapport? Watch clinical demonstrations of some of the most common disorders therapists encounter— Adjustment, Panic, Generalized Anxiety, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders—and learn how to gather diagnostic data without compromising client care.

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Even though some professionals debate DSM’s merits, obtaining an accurate diagnosis is a vital skill today. Volume 2 of The DSM-5 and Psychodiagnostic Interviewing, with TR Updates features diagnostic interviews with clients struggling with adjustment, panic, generalized anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorders—four of the more common diagnoses encountered in clinical practice. You’ll see two clinicians with contrasting styles conducting professional diagnostic interviews while attending to the therapeutic alliance.

Clinical expert and counselor-educator Jason Buckles believes it’s important to arrive at an accurate diagnosis without sacrificing empathy, warmth, or humor. Buckles, alongside Psychotherapy.net founder Victor Yalom, will teach you how to do just that through clinical vignettes of these diagnoses and step-by-step guidance on gathering diagnostic data, common rule outs, and the DSM-5-TR's updated suicide risk and cultural considerations. Mental health professionals with a wide variety of training backgrounds, and in settings ranging from emergency rooms to independent practice, will benefit from the comprehensive presentation of symptoms and clinical skills provided in this video.

Learn a client-centered approach that allows you to confidently diagnose these common conditions so you can better help clients heal.  

What therapists are saying…

“An exceptional, thorough, and informative video series on diagnosis and the diagnostic interview….helpful for students in internships as well as therapists who are obtaining their hours toward licensure.”

—LaToya Yaites, PhD, Therapist and Adjunct Instructor, Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas 
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Volume 2 of The DSM-5 and Psychodiagnostic Interviewing, with TR Updates covers four disorders common to clinical populations, with an array of symptoms that, at least in mild forms, everyone has experienced simply in the course of being human. The suicide risk and cultural considerations introduced in the DSM-5-TR are highlighted for each diagnosis. Yalom and Buckles further their discussion around the issues of subjectivity inherent in making diagnostic judgment calls. They do not shy away from the potential political and monetary implications of “throwing the door too far open, or keeping the door too tightly closed.” This is especially evident society's ongoing discourse on the nature of trauma and its damaging effects.

Viewers meet three individuals and one couple, all accurately portraying the life struggles and key details that demonstrate what these clusters of symptoms look like when they reach a diagnosable level. Of course, the interviews are not perfect, but we learn from that as well. With humor and insight, Buckles and Yalom note the omissions and discuss what the interviewer might have done differently, or what the interviewer might do in the next session.

Also modeled in these vignettes are skills related to destigmatizing the symptoms and the diagnosis. Further, the interviewer demonstrates how to introduce the notion of continuing in therapy to address the disorder and improve the client’s overall mental health.

By watching this video, you will be able to:

Recognize the symptoms associated with Adjustment, Panic, Generalized Anxiety, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders.

Gain skills in conducting a thorough diagnostic interview with clients experiencing the symptoms in question.

Expand your knowledge of these diagnoses and related diagnoses in order to differentiate between diagnoses that share similar precipitating events or symptoms.  

Length of video: 2:28:41

English subtitles available

Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-542-4

Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-542-7

Jason Buckles, PhD, earned his Bachelor’s in Psychology at New York University in 1992. While there he worked on psychiatric diagnostic projects at Bellevue Hospital and the New York Psychiatric Institute. He earned his Master’s in Counseling at The University of New Mexico in 2001 and PhD at The University of New Mexico in 2016. Buckles has a private mental health counseling practice and behavior consultation agency specializing in supports for people with intellectual disability and concurrent mental health diagnoses. From 2012 through 2016 he was the statewide clinical director of the New Mexico Department of Health—Bureau of Behavioral Support. Since late 2016 he has been the executive director of A Better Way of Living, an agency that provides life-wide supports for people with intellectual disability and concurrent behavioral and/or mental health conditions. He has taught psychiatric assessment and diagnosis at New Mexico Highlands University since 2002 and in the Special Education department at The University of New Mexico since 2015.




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CE credits: 2.25

Learning Objectives:

  • List the symptoms associated with Adjustment, Panic, Generalized Anxiety, and Posttraumatic Stress disorders
  • Apply skills in conducting a diagnostic interview with these client types
  • Prepare interview questions that facilitate differential diagnosis of these disorders

Bibliography available upon request

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