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Throughout the years, psychologist have been developing treatments for PTSD. Some of the treatments work, but there are some treatments that could possibly make the symptoms worse. PTSD stands for post-traumatic stress disorder, which is something that not only affects war veterans but it also affects business men and women, firefighters, police officers, and normal everyday people. PTSD is a type of anxiety disorder that can occur after someone has gone through an extreme emotional trauma that involved the threat of injury or death. People with this disorder may feel frightened or stressed even when their lives are no longer in danger. One of the many treatments for this disorder is CISD, or critical incident stress debriefing.
CISD is a treatment that is designed to prevent the symptoms of PTSD and other related anxiety disorders that may occur among the people who experienced something traumatic. The treatment process of CISD is fairly short. It is typically administered to groups of people within 24 to 72 …show more content…

This therapy begins by teaching the patients to notice any dysfunctional thoughts and inaccuracies in their ways of thinking, then the therapist encourages their patients to think rationally, leading to the encouragement of their patients to reconsider their current beliefs about themselves, the trauma, and the world. The earlier sessions’ main focuses are to help the patients recognize what they have thought and to calculate those thoughts by probabilistic reasoning, Socratic questioning, and to have the patients provide pros and cons of those thoughts. In later sessions, patients were able to identify, evaluate, and change inaccurate beliefs about the trauma, self, world, and future (Marks et al., 1998). They ended the sessions with a new, positive way of thinking. The only downfall of cognitive restructuring is that its treatment is spread out over a period of

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