Artikel CBT for PTSS

Question 1

updating trauma memories is a three-step procedure that includes

Answer 1

• accessing memories of the worst moments during the traumatic events and their cur- rently threatening meanings,
• identifying information that updates these meanings (either information from the course of events during the trauma or from cognitive restructuring and testing of predictions), and
• linking the new meanings to the worst moments in the memory.

Question 2

discrimination training with triggers of reexperiencing involves

Answer 2

systematically spotting idiosyncratic triggers (often subtle sensory cues) and learning to
discriminate between “Now” (cues in a new safe context) and “Then” (cues in the traumatic event).

Question 3

What are the three steps of changing meaning of trauma in PTSD?

Answer 3

1. Identifying threatening personal meanings: includes imaginal reliving and narrative writing
2. Identifying updating information identify information that provides evidence against the problematic meanings
3. Active incorporation of the updating information into the hot spots. Clients are asked to bring this hot spot to mind through imaginal reliving or reading the corresponding part of the narrative and then to remind themselves, prompted by the therapist, of the updating information

Question 4

Psychoeducation is most of the time the first step clinicians take in treating PTSD. What are three important components of it?

Answer 4

Question 5

What are the six ingredients of trauma-focused psychological treatments for PTSD?

Answer 5

Question 6

according to Ehlers and Clark: there are two key processes driving the sense of current threat in PTSD:

Answer 6

negative appraisals: lead to people with PTSD having a range of negative emotions.
characteristics of trauma memories: people with PTSD tend to remember trauma in a decontextualized way.