[Psychotraumatology: Recent therapy approaches].
Present-day therapy approaches in psychotraumatology center around the problem of effective access to specific trauma symptoms: intrusions; affective blunting and avoidance behaviors; hyperarousal. Taking its bearings from the German and American PTSD therapy guidelines, the article outlines the most important therapy methods and assesses them in terms of relevant quality criteria. EMDR, cognitive/behavioral approaches, modified psychodynamic methods and trauma-adapted inpatient psychotherapy can be recommended as long as they are used in conjunction with stabilizing therapy elements. Normally, further therapeutic interventions are also necessary, drawing on traditional methods for integrating the trauma into the patient's biography.
Seidler
Günter H
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Abteilung Psychosomatik der Psychosomatischen Universitätsklinik Heidelberg, Thibautstrasse 2, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany. Guenter_Seidler@med.uni-heidelberg.de
D006801:Humans; D010343:Patient Admission; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome