Dr. Edna Foa- Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD

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Uploaded by on Sep 18, 2009

Dra. Foa giving a lecture on evidence based practice for PTSD in Carlos Albizu University (Psychology grad school), San Juan Campus

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  • Recount ur expirience over and over many times in numbers of sessions, How different is that from a dagger that gets painful as you push it deeper then eases when you stop, dagger is now impaled deeper. And it supposed to treat your PTSD after many seesions? or you just get used to it and it bury you deeper cos if they force you to remember more than you normally do - thats no way in hell you will ever forget. Come on now!

  • @chinggop It's a little more complicated than what you think. But, in a nutshell, the point is that you kind of re-live the traumatic moment but in a safe enviroment where you learn (because of the therapist) that event happend, and yes it was horrible, but it is not happening again and you should not feel pain everytime you think about it. The point is to kind of "normalize" it or adapt to it and kind of get used to the idea of what happend (not acepting it as something good, but

  • @0mmcs0 (Continuation) as something that happend. Again is more complicated than what she's barely explaining, but again, This treatment is the American Psicological Assocation TREATMENT OF CHOICE. There is more than enough empirical evidence that the Size of Effect (the means how much and how good it works in statistical terms) is greater than 1.00 (in which anything higher than .80 is GREAT). Look it up in psychological and psiquiatric journesl and see it yourself.

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  • I'm only asking, but isn't it wrong uploading videos where patients are telling their traumas? They're great, but it doesn't seem right.

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