Cognitive Processing Therapy provides relief of PTSD in approximately 12 sessions.
Cognitive processing therapy helps patients to modify beliefs resulting from traumatic experiences and creates a new conceptualization of the events in order to reduce the ongoing negative impact.
Treatment typically includes building awareness of the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Cognitive processing therapy helps the patient to identify automatic thoughts related to PTSD. The patient identifies how the traumatic event has impacted him/her in an impact statement.
The patient will work to reduce avoidance of negative thoughts and feelings related to the traumatic event and challenge unhelpful patterns of thinking and beliefs resulting from the traumatic experiencing. Adaptive strategies are then performed in the patient’s own environments. Key areas of focus include safety, trust, power, control, esteem and intimacy.