CBT for PTSD

Treatment of PTSD with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
To help patients reduce symptoms and improve functioning, therapists employ a range of strategies. CBT therapists may encourage patients to re-evaluate their thinking patterns and assumptions to identify unhelpful patterns (often referred to as "distortions") in thoughts, such as overgeneralizing negative outcomes, negative thinking that diminishes positive thinking, and always expecting catastrophic outcomes, and to replace them with more balanced and effective thinking patterns. These are meant to assist the person in rethinking their perceptions of traumatic events and their perceptions of themselves and their ability to cope.
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