Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | Rogers Behavioral Health
There are a number of different ways in which a person could experience trauma and most people are most familiar with people returning from a war setting and experiencing some sort of trauma due to combat, having a life threatening situation they were in, or witnessing other people in a life threatening situation or witnessing other people lose their lives. Other types of traumatic incidents can involve any time a person feels that their life; their well being is threatened to a great extent. So other common traumas include: assaults, that can be physical assaults, sexual assaults. Those are actually fairly common and one of the most common traumas that lead to the development of PTSD. But there are also other traumas that can occur without other people around, so people getting in a car accident or some sort of natural disaster where they feel their life is threatened may go on to develop PTSD as well. PTSD itself can have a really alienating effect on people, both internally and externally. So people might distance themselves from memories of the event that happened or their feelings that are associated with it, and that often leads to distancing themselves from others and close relationships they may have had. So adding an inter-personal process group to our treatment approach, will, as their getting some symptom reduction, will get them back into practice of being able to connect with others. So we kind of look at it as an added step, that just because you reduce symptoms, it may not mean that you are getting back into the practice of some healthy behaviors. They’ll be a couple different components of the program: the main part that we’ll be trying to work on is trying to reduce any PTSD related symptoms. But we’re also going to focus on, not just mental health, but also physical health, so there will be some physical exercise that will be included in the program. A portion of the program will be devoted to mindfulness; that should be helpful for overall mental health. But most of the program will actually be to reduce the symptoms associated with PTSD. We’re going to be providing an environment that’s going to be supportive, there are going to be other people there that have PTSD as well, that can provide support for each other, although we won’t be encouraging the to discuss their traumas openly with each other, some of our groups we feel will provide them an environment where they can feel support from other people who have experienced similar things. Rogers also has a couple of decades of experience now, in trying to design specialized programs that target very specific symptoms for very specific disorders and has been successful in that manner and I really feel that it has the infrastructure set up to be very successful with this program as well. I think some of the unique aspects of the program will also be our ability to deal with some of the conditions that often occur with PTSD. So we have a lot of expertise in other areas of mental health, including: depression, other anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and both alcohol and substance dependence and abuse So we have a lot of professionals here that we can rely on for support in those areas, and those are the most common conditions that co-occur or develop after someone has PTSD. So I think having that added level of support will help separate ourselves from other programs that try to treat this condition as well.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | Rogers Behavioral Health
Rogers provides partial hospitalization for single-incident posttraumatic stress disorder utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy. Discussed by Dr. Wetterneck.
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