This informational handout provides a client-friendly overview of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and ways to address it.
Offers theory, guidance, and prompts for mental health professionals. Downloads are in Fillable PDF format where appropriate.
Includes client-friendly guidance. Downloads are in Fillable PDF format where appropriate.
Our ‘What Is … ?’ series is a collection of one-page information handouts for common mental health conditions. Friendly and explanatory, handouts in the series describe how it can feel to struggle with a difficulty and are reliable sources of information for your clients. Drawing upon established cognitive behavioral models, each handout has a particular focus on maintaining factors that might prevent the problem from getting better.
What Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? is designed to help clients with PTSD to understand more about their condition.
This resource is expertly designed to support clients by:
Designed to help clients affected by PTSD.
Discuss the common symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Help the client understand how their symptoms fit together and make sense.
Explore what might be maintaining the client's difficulties.
Point out treatments that can be effective for addressing these issues.
Many of us will experience trauma at some point in our lives. With time, most people recover from their experiences without needing professional help. However, for a significant proportion of people, the effects of trauma last for much longer, and they develop a condition called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is thought that between 3 and 5 people out of every 100 will experience PTSD every year. Fortunately, there are a range of excellent psychological therapies for PTSD.
The What Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? information handout is designed to help clients with PTSD understand more about their condition. It includes a summary of the most common symptoms of PTSD and insights into why PTSD might not get better by itself, derived from the Ehlers & Clark (2000) cognitive model of PTSD.
