Time after time, the question of trauma pops up in the Testing Psychologist Community on Facebook. How do I appropriately assess it? How do I separate it from other diagnoses? What does it really look like? If you’ve ever asked these questions, this course is for you.

In this two part course, The Testing Psychologist, Dr. Jeremy Sharp, sits down with Dr. Julia Strait to talk about all things trauma. Including:

• Acute trauma vs. developmental/complex trauma
• “Concept creep” (i.e., can anything count as trauma?)
• The pros and cons of the DSM-5 trauma conceptualization and diagnostic options
• Interviewing for traumatic experiences
• Measures to assess trauma
• Differential diagnosis of trauma and other concerns like ADHD, ASD, and others
• Feedback and report-writing with a trauma-informed lens

Interview Date: 1/2021.

Course Content designation: Testing/Assessment; Clinical

Format: Asynchronous, distance learning. Non-interactive. Recorded audio with transcript.

Want to hear the interview? Listen for free using the audio player below.
Interview with Julia Strait – Part 1

Want to hear the interview? Listen for free using the audio player below.
Interview with Julia Strait – Part 2

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About Dr. Julia Strait

Julia Strait, PhD specializes in treating young women with everyday stress, as well as more pervasive emotional difficulties related to depression, anxiety, and trauma. She is a Nationally Certified Trauma-Focused Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT) Therapist and has specialized training in mindfulness-, self-compassion-, and acceptance-based therapy approaches for building awareness and understanding of difficult emotions and experiences. She also has expertise in psychological testing and assessment to help with diagnosis and treatment recommendations.

Dr. Strait earned her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas and her Master’s and PhD from the University of South Carolina. She did her postdoctoral training in Child Welfare and Trauma-Informed Care at the University of Tennessee Center of Excellence for Children in State Custody and has worked as a teacher, professor, researcher, and supervisor in schools, clinics, and universities across the Southeast United States.

In her free time, Dr. Strait loves listening to podcasts, being outside, eating queso, and doing yoga and Pilates. She has two awesome kids and a very cool dog, and she blogs for Psychology Today. You can also follow her on Instagram @drjuliatx.

ABOUT DR. JEREMY SHARP

Dr. Sharp is a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that he founded in 2009 and which now has over 20 clinicians. Dr. Sharp earned his undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting his Masters and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, Dr. Sharp specializes in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents.

As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, Dr. Sharp provides private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. He live in Fort Collins, Colorado with his wife (also a therapist) and two young kids.

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