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Running head: COGINITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR PTSD
COGINITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR PTSD
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The paper focuses on what Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is and how this treatment
acts upon different mental diseases especially on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. This paper
is going to talk about many of the case-studies on PTSD and studying each of them crucially
to show the effectiveness on this mental illness. Each of the cases are picked up and analyzed
on the basis of the treatment and its impact on the patient. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a
kind of psychotherapy which enables one to overcome illnesses like anxiety, depression,
trauma, and phobia or ant sort of mental disorder (Wiles et al., 2013). Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder is a mental disorder that is generated in a person either after experiencing or
countersigning a particular horrifying incident. Therefore, the objective of the paper is to
analyze the condition of multiple patients inflicted by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and
how the change occurred in their behavioral pattern because of this therapy.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder can be defined as a disease which surfaces in a patient
due to encountering any terrible incident which recurrently comes back to the patient in the
forms of nightmares and anxiety attack. It has been surveyed and examined that it can turn
out to be very dangerous because the patient tends to absorb into a strange world where he
misses out some basic practices of human beings such as self-care, indulging into
entertainment. The patient in some cases becomes very pessimistic and tends to lose faith
from himself. He is always engrossed in negativity and seems to have lost all the positivity
and eagerness from his life. Now, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a verbal or conversational
treatment through which a patient is provided with mental strength to overpower the trauma
one is going through. The repeated session between the patient and the therapist can show the
desirable result of the patient coming back to normalcy gradually. The therapeutic session is a
not a long-term procedure. It locates the negative attitude in a patient and addresses the issue
to get done away with it in an ongoing process. It brings about the changes in the deleterious

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habits of a patient and tries to decentralize positivity in terms of emotional aspect to be very
specific.
There are primarily four types of this therapy including Rational Emotive Behavior
Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Multimodal Therapy and Dialectical Therapy (Trimble, 2014).
REBT is such a procedure where negative objects are identified and the patient is taught to
deal with it positivity while a constant change in the behavioral Pattern is witnessed. In
Cognitive Therapy patient is to identify and rectify inappropriate or misleading thinking
arrangements and emotional inclinations. The seven types of modalities like imaginative
capabilities, perception, behavior, impression or feelings, medical factors, affect and
interpersonal behaviors are addressed and taken into consideration in the other category
named Multimodal Therapy. Lastly the Dialectical Therapy deals with the incorporation of
techniques like sensitive parameter and mindfulness.
There are some particular changes visible in a patient thoroughly if one is suffering
from PTSD for instance the patient tends to avoid the places where the accident might have
happened, deliberately ignoring the encounter with the people associated with the incident,
generating pessimistic thoughts, envisioning the incidents time and again, having horrible
nightmares, feeling emotionally drained out most of the time, going through numbness,
having issues related to memory, being the victim of losing sound sleep, concentration, being
overpowered by excruciating guilt mostly all the time and being surrounded by very low self-
esteem (Tanev et al., 2014). The most dangerous outcome of this disorder is acquiring the
suicidal tendency.
According to multiple surveys by different psychoanalytical studies, there are various
instances of visible behavioral changes found in patients after the implementation of CBT on
them. For instance, a war veteran from Afghanistan named Jill has witnesses her fellow