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samedi 12 janvier 2019

The Use Of DBT In PTSD Treatment Granbury TX

By Dorothy Sullivan


Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder can bring with it a host of debilitating symptoms. These accompanying symptoms range from depression to anxiety and sometimes even panic attacks when people are out in public or left alone at home. Further, people with this mental health condition often cannot go back out into society as a productive member until they undergo extensive counseling and psychiatric care. Instead of prescribing medications and recommending therapy alone, more mental health providers are recommending these patients go through dialectical behavior therapy. When using DBT as an element of PTSD treatment Granbury TX patients may have better chances of recovering fully.

A therapist named Marsha Lenahan developed DBT more than 20 years ago. From its relatively humble beginnings to now, it has gained increasing notice among therapists and psychologists who treat patients for a host of mental ailments like depression and anxiety. It was originally created to address bipolar disorder in patients. However, it has shown effective in treating more conditions like panic disorder and severe depression in patients.

Patients are taught four components of good mental health. These components are Core Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Emotion Regulation. Within these four components of DBT are skills that patients learn and practice during the time they are in the therapy. These skills include mindfulness, effectiveness, radical acceptance, distraction, and opposite-to-emotion actions.

The scientific studies that have been conducted regarding DBT have shown that people often have higher success rates with recovering than people who rely solely on medications or individual therapy. People in DBT also have to go to individual therapy sessions. However, they take a one-year long DBT course that is in essence group therapy where they learn skills and practice what they learn on a regular basis.

The DBT class itself is a type of group therapy session during which a dozen or more people, all of whom have their own psychiatric challenges, listen to classroom teaching, take part in group discussions, and also work on homework together. All of the skills build on each other and culminate into the motto of DBT, which is to create a life worth living.

The diary cards note behaviors like feeling suicidal to cutting oneself. It also keeps track of how often people take their prescribed medications, if they thought about quitting therapy, or if they experienced severe depression during the week. They rate these behaviors on a scale from zero to five with five being the most extreme emotion or action taken.

The other part of DBT requires patients to commit to going to weekly individual therapy sessions with a licensed psychologist or psychotherapist. These sessions are designed to be an opportunity to express frustrating feelings and talk about distressing events during the week. However, they also serve as a time for the therapist to challenge a patient to try new behaviors like going out in public or talking to people like a cashier at a store.

PTSD is one of the most challenging mental health conditions from which to recover. However, more therapists are using dialectical behavior therapy to help patients overcome it. This type of therapy has high recovery rates than traditional therapy and medication. People learn skills that they incorporate into their everyday lives to create lives that they believe are worth living for them.




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