Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for PTSD




Counselor Toolbox Podcast show

Summary: 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.”