It is becoming increasingly acceptable in clinical work to find correlations between people suffering from psychotic symptoms and a lengthy history of trauma. In accordance with this permitted lens, studies are beginning to research how treating individuals with psychotic symptoms for PTSD can illuminate new treatment outcome possibilities. This year (2018), The British Journal of Psychiatry published a study about the long term outcomes of trauma focused treatment in psychosis. According to the summary, “the results support that current PTSD guidelines apply to individuals with psychosis” (Berg, et al., 2018, p. 1). Basically, they showed how there were positive outcome results over a 12-month period for psychotic individuals after they had received prolonged exposure trauma treatment and EMDR. The full article can be found by clicking the link below that will take you to the full pdf from the journal.
Trauma Focused Treatment in Psychosis
Published in PTSD
BS, MA Passionate about executive functioning disorder treatment and healing, particularly for individuals suffering from overlapping symptoms of trauma and ADHD. I am dedicating my life and career toward expanding the cultural and clinical understanding of individuals labelled (by the DSM) as having both PSTD and ADHD. My provisional telos is to find best practices for healing, contingent upon progressive states (of the individual and in the field of psychology) that emerge.
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