Counselor Toolbox Podcast with DocSnipes
Counselor Toolbox Podcast with DocSnipes
Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for PTSD
59 minutes Posted Jul 31, 2019 at 1:05 am.
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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.”

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