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Setting meaningful PTSD treatment goals is crucial for navigating the path to recovery and reclaiming control over your life. By addressing symptoms, managing emotions, improving relationships, and enhancing self-esteem, you can take proactive steps toward healing.
Key features include: Re-experiencing symptoms (e.g., flashbacks, nightmares) Avoidance of trauma-related stimuli. Negative alterations in cognition and mood. Hyperarousal symptoms. Differential Diagnosis: It's essential to consider other conditions that may present with similar symptoms: Acute Stress Disorder. Adjustment Disorders.
Treatment. Post-traumatic stress disorder treatment can help you regain a sense of control over your life. The main treatment is talk therapy, also known as psychotherapy. But treatment also can include medicine. Combining these treatments can make your symptoms better by: Teaching you skills to manage your symptoms.
APA’s Clinical Practice Guideline strongly recommends four interventions for treating posttraumatic stress disorder, and conditionally recommends another four. The information below about the recommended interventions is intended to provide clinicians with a basic understanding of the specific treatment approach.
Provision of high quality, effective care that reduces symptoms and helps the patient return to higher levels of functioning is a shared goal for patients and their families, practitioners, policy makers, and administrators.
• Goals – The goals of treatment include maintaining safety of the patient and others, reduce distressing symptoms, reduce avoidant behaviors, diminish anxiety, and improve adaptive and psychosocial functioning, and lessen the risk of relapse.
Objectives/treatment focus: Learn coping techniques to reduce PTSD and prepare to handle future stressful situations (thought stopping, thought switching, creative visualization, progressive muscle relaxation, deep breathing, etc.); this is sometimes called “stress inoculation training”