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Recovery from Trauma: What Works

Duration: 29 minutes

Program ID: 904c | Free (DVD)

This program is intended for people who have experienced a traumatic event, or are close to someone who has, and need help to cope with the experience. It has been produced to help them better understand the signs and symptoms they may be experiencing and assist them and their family to make more informed decisions about the most appropriate treatment and care.  

Recovery from Trauma:  What Works includes information and advice on:

  • the kind of information your health practitioner needs from you to determine how to help
  • the most effective treatments for problems following trauma
  • the best way to help someone in the first few days and weeks after a traumatic event

This program is linked with the 904p: Australian Guidelines for the Treatment of Adults with Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder program.

This program will have its premiere broadcast on the Rural Health Education Foundation's satellite network on Tuesday 16th March 2010, and will be repeated on Friday 19th March 2010.  It is already available for viewing via webstreaming or listening via audio podcast through the links on the right hand side of this page.  For information about free DVD copies of this program (within Australia only), please click the "About the DVD" link on the right hand side of this page, go to the "free DVDs" page or contact the Foundation.

Recovery From Trauma:  What Works was the only program outside North America to win a “FREDDIE” statuette at the prestigious 2009 International Health and Medical Media Awards.  The program was selected by the US-based judging panel as the best health education video from anywhere in the world in the Psychiatry category.  For more details about this award, see the Foundation's November 29, 2009 news release.

Program Presenters

  • Dr John Cooper - Psychiatrist, ACPMH
  • Ms Anne-Laure Couineau - Psychologist, ACPMH
  • Professor Mark Creamer - Director, Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health (ACPMH), Melbourne
  • Associate Professor David Forbes - Clinical Director, ACPMH
  • Ms Andrea Phelps - Clinical Psychologist, ACPMH
See details of presenters for this program

Broadcast Dates

This program was first broadcast on the Foundation's satellite network on Tuesday 16 March 2010.

Funding Bodies

Produced in association with Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, with funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.