When Treatment Becomes Trauma: Offsetting the Risk of Medical PTSD in Patients
This presentation is a no-frills summary of what Medical PTSD is and how it can significantly impact a patient's ability to engage in their healthcare and their overall treatment outcomes.
This presentation is intended for healthcare professionals who are interested in how more conscious communication can aid both themselves and their patients in the collaborative delivery of healthcare with minimal medical trauma.
Learning Outcomes:
- What medical PTSD is and how it is similar and different to traditional PTSD
- The category of ways PTSD can develop in a clinical environment
- Opportunities providers to collaborate to alleviate symptoms of medical PTSD for patients
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Emily Parks, Founder of POP!, a Patient Advocate, Medical PTSD advocate, and Public Speaker
Emily is a chronically ill young professional based out of San Francisco working in behavioral health and patient advocacy. Combining her expertise in behavioral health with her lived experience of navigating multiple tertiary hospitals firsthand has led her down the path of studying the impact of medical trauma and medical PTSD on patients and providers and its influence on treatment outcomes. She trained at Boston University in the class of 2016 and specializes in psychology and brain studies.