Effective Psychotherapy » exposure therapy http://www.effectivepsychotherapy.net Counseling for Individuals and Couples Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:10:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) http://www.effectivepsychotherapy.net/2009/05/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/ http://www.effectivepsychotherapy.net/2009/05/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 02:28:52 +0000 michelle http://www.effectivepsychotherapy.net/?p=255 Excellent workbook that gives basic information on and the theoretical foundation of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The workbook also contains an outline of exposure therapy for post traumatic stress disorder.

Exposure therapy is considered the most effective evidenced based therapy for PTSD. It helps people deal with trauma  in the past, and  enables them to move forward. It consists of confronting the painful memories and the triggers that arouse them. Repetition, which lies at the heart of exposure therapy, eventually causes the painful memories to lose their intrusive intensity.

EMDR, which is in vogue today, is a form of exposure therapy.

Reclaiming Your Life from a Traumatic Experience: A Prolonged Exposure Treatment Program Workbook (Treatments That Work)

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Social anxiety can reduce you quality of life, not let you achieve your full potential, and ultimately lead to depression. 41ddx5cz2ol_sl160_What results is a vicious cycle – the more anxious you are, the more barriers you will encounter in your life, the more depressed you become, which ultimately contribute to your anxiety. I recommend this self-help book. It is part of a serie published by Oxford University Press. All the books adhere to cognitive-behavioral approach. They come in pairs – one for the client, one for the therapists. All those I have seen so far, were excellent.If you read this book, and work along its guideline, you may not even need to see me. And if you do, it will shorten the treatment and make my work easier.

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