3 Common PTSD Treatment for Child

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3 Common PTSD Treatment for Child
For Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

• PTSD is an anxiety disorder or an abnormal
• psychological condition develops after a person
  is exposed to a traumatic or painful incident.
• Individuals of any age and gender can suffer PTSD
  and symptoms may develop
• immediately after an accident or during the
  course of time.
• Psychologists, therapists, or psychiatrists can
  help people with PTSD deal with hurtful thoughts
  and
• bad feelings and get back to a normal life.

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Cognitive Processing Therapy

• If we talk about PTSD Treatment for Child, CPT is
  highly
• recommended and is a 12-week course of treatment,
  with weekly
• sessions of 60-90 minutes.
• At first, you'll talk about the traumatic event
  with your therapist and
• how your thoughts related to it have affected
  your life. Then you'll write in detail about what
  happened. This process helps you examine how
• you think about your trauma and figure out new
  ways to live with it.
• This type of therapy teaches ways to replace
  negative, unhelpful
• thoughts and feelings with more positive
  thinking. 

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Prolonged Exposure Therapy

• If you've been avoiding things that remind
• you of the traumatic event, PE will help you
• confront them. It involves eight to 15 session,
  usually 90 minutes each.
• Early on in treatment, your therapist will teach
  you breathing techniques to ease your 
• anxiety when you think about what happened. 
• Later, you'll make a list of the things you've
• been avoiding and learn how to face them,
• one by one. In another session, you'll recount
  the traumatic experience to your therapist,
• then go home and listen to a recording of
• yourself.

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Medications

• If a child is feeling severe anxiety, fear and
  hopelessness,
• medication can be a useful addition to her
  psychotherapy for
• PTSD. 
• Antidepressant or anti-anxiety medications can
  help the child
• feel calmer, more in control and ready to apply
  the coping
• strategies she is learning in therapy.
• Medications help you stop thinking about and
  reacting to what
• happened, including having nightmares and
  flashbacks. 
• Our Psychologist is devoted to helping children,
  families and
• clinicians decide whether medication might be a
  useful part of
• treatment.