2.10 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Psychiatry Boot Camp
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Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for PTSD
This chapter delves into prolonged exposure and cognitive processing therapy for PTSD, highlighting how these therapies target trauma-related fears, avoidance behaviors, and beliefs. It emphasizes the significance of psychotherapy over medication, in line with VA and DOD guidelines. The importance of psychoeducation, therapeutic alliance, exposing patients to distressing situations, and restructuring maladaptive cognitions is discussed in detail to alleviate PTSD symptoms.
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