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Chapter 3 Group Therapy and Approach Group therapies and approaches are one of the treatment for people who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These treatments are carried by the professionals such as the therapists and counselors who have the qualifications and knowledge in these therapies and approaches. Many people that suffer from PTSD will hide their feelings or talk about their feelings to others. They can bottle up their feelings and share it to the professionals (“Treatment for PTSD,” 2016). With their qualifications and also knowledges, it will bring effectiveness to help the people to walk out from their traumas. Following are the effective therapies and approaches for PTSD.
Chapter 3.1 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy …show more content…

CBT are the therapy that most commonly used in treating anxiety and depression as well as some mental and physical disorders. This therapy emphasized human’s thoughts, feelings, sensations and actions are interrelated. For instance, a negative sensation will lead to negative feelings and negative thoughts and eventually behave in negative way. CBT aims to break down the overwhelming problems that one has into smaller parts and make changes in the negative part to positive and thus improve one’s feelings as well as actions. CBT looks for the practical ways to improve daily state of one’s mind. Thus, it is focus on the current issues instead of focus on the past issues (“Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT),” …show more content…

There are several components under exposure therapy such as in vivo exposure, systematic desensitization and flooding (McLean & Foa, 2011). In vivo exposure refers to face directly to the feared object, situations, thoughts or activities in real life. Besides, systematic desensitization is a way to face avoided objects, situations, activities or thoughts with a relaxation exercises to make them feel less threatening and feel manageable to associated with the avoided objects, situations and thoughts. Last, flooding is the exposure fear hierarchy that one’s begin to exposure their anxiety or fear with the most difficult tasks (“What is Exposure Therapy?,” n.d.). Therapists will ask the patient to repeat this exposure exercise three times a day. After several times, the patient find their anxiety have reduced and also does not last as long as they thought. Then, the patient is ready to move to the harder situation and repeat the exposure. This therapy requires patient to practice regularly in order to overcome their traumas (“Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) – How it works,”

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