PTSD Treatment: Stages of Treatment (PTSD Video 2)

Part 1:    • Why some people get PTSD, why others ...  

We recap that PTSD entails the presence of ‘trauma-type memories’. These are unlike normal narrative memories in that they are fragmented, often incomplete, they evoke powerful emotions and have the feeling of recency. They are very toxic and they are the primary issue in PTSD; other PTSD symptoms (hypervigilance, reexperiencing/nightmares, hyperarousal/insomnia) are manifestations of ‘trauma-type memories’.

A key goal is the transformation of toxic ‘trauma-type memories’ into less toxic narrative-type memories.

Without skills to tackle the arousal, it’s very tough to get on top of PTSD.

There are discrete stages to the treatment of PTSD. The stages are:
Stage 0: Pretreatment or undertreatment of PTSD.
Stage 1: Understanding PTSD and understanding PTSD treatment.
Stage 2: Acquiring the skills needed to cope with Distress of PTSD and the distress of recalling PTSD Trauma-type memories.
Stage 3: Tolerance of their trauma narrative so that people can start to make sense of their trauma experience.
Stage 4: understanding the meaning of the trauma episode and finding the lesson of their trauma experience.

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