Counselor Toolbox Podcast with DocSnipes

Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for PTSD

07.31.2019 - By Dr. Dawn-Elise SnipesPlay

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Summary

- Trauma impacts the person biopsychosocially

- Behavioral interventions can help them prevent and address avoidance and hypervigilance

- Cognitive interventions can help them

- Understand the function of their symptoms to choose effective ways of dealing with them

- Address unhelpful cognitions about the trauma, themselves and the world

- Reduce chronic stress to help the HPA-Axis rebalance and recover

- Assist in integrating the trauma narrative so it is not a “loose end.”

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