Wayne State University School of Medicine

Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

Chairman's Grand Rounds

Date: Nov. 9. 2022

Time: 1-2pm

Venue: Zoom conference and Blue Lecture Hall, 3rd Floor - Scott Hall

Speaker: 

Deane Aikins, PhD

Research Psychologist

John D. Dingell VA Healthcare System

Associate Professor

Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

Wayne State University School of Medicine 

TOPIC: 

"Attachment Theory Helps Understand Treatment Outcome and Crisis Line Use for Veterans with PTSD"

Objectives:

1.  Describe the current state of Empirically Supported Therapies for Veterans with PTSD.

2.  Identify the four Attachment classifications and explain how each may approach coping with traumatic grief and loss.

3.  Discuss outcome data and crisis line usage for a pilot sample of treatment seeking veterans. 

4.  Describe novel attachment-based PTSD treatment alternatives.