Abstract
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is psychological trauma that effects on somatic, cognitive-affective, and behavioral. The goals of treatment to persons who have PTSD to decreasing functional impairment, building resilience, reducing symptom severity, preventing relapse, modifying pathogenic fear, preventing the occurrence of comorbid disorders and treating also improving the quality of life of patients. There are many types of psychotherapy, the type which retrieves acknowledgment that applicable treatment is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The purpose of this paper is to provide and highlight the information about risk factors and effect of PTSD in adults and the effectiveness of CBT for adults with PTSD. The literature review showed the risk factors to develop PTSD and when PTSD was noted symptoms that affect life that needs for intervention to decrease these symptoms and to prevent the problem to develop and showed the effectiveness of CBT on adults with PTSD in a different form according to articles that found it.
Highlights
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) severe and chronic disorder that develops when some people exposure to an event that considers traumatic, this event implicate threatened injury to same people or others [1]
PTSD problems that affect to physiological and psychological as mentioned above and need intervention to resolve these problems, as mentioned in the introduction there are psychotherapies intervention that included the CBT and this therapy involve more than one form that used in many disorders [48], for PTSD there are many studies used of CBT that form such as Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE), Cognitive Therapy (CT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT) [5]
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a series disorder that affects psychological and physical approach and different the severity of disorder and ways to deal with PTSD to reduce the symptoms, the purpose of this paper to provide and highlight about risk factors and effect of PTSD in adults and the effectiveness of CBT for adults with PTSD
Summary
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) severe and chronic disorder that develops when some people exposure to an event that considers traumatic, this event implicate threatened injury to same people or others [1]. There are many forms of CBT to treat different disorders such as cognitive processing therapy (CPT), cognitive therapy (CT), cognitive restructuring (CR), Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE), and Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT) [5] [16] That this forms of CBT involve many components of techniques to therapy includes, exposure to trauma reminders, cognitive restructuring, imagery rescripting, education about common reactions to trauma, relaxation training, identification and modification of cognitive distortions, post-traumatic growth, graduated exposure to avoided situations, and trauma re-experiences [17] [18]. These therapies could be done in a variety of settings including schools, clinics hospitals, and community centers [19].
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