Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Chil

The intake of several the lash oututic methods to treat children with PTSD increases the credit line among clinicians about the most rough-and-ready intercession for PTSD. The clinical literature describes a wide variety of interventions besides CBT including, psychoanalytic techniques, creative arts, play therapy, crisis intervention, nub movement desensitization and reprocessing, and pharmacotherapy which raises the question about what could be the most in force(p) treatment for children with PTSD (Cohen, Mannarino & Rogal 2001). Several of these therapies have been recognized as effective PTSD treatments. For instance, Eye-Movement Desensitization and Processing (EMDR), has become an increasingly accepted treatment modality for childhood PTSD however, very few physicians recommend its use (Cohen, et al. 2001). EMDR is a PTSD treatment in which clients are engaged to visually track the therapists finger being rapidly draw in back and forth as they engage with the trauma memo ry (Feeny et al. (2004). In a controlled study that examined the efficacy of EMDR on children with PTSD who were victims of natural disasters, Chemtob, Nakashima, & Carlson (2002), install that EMDR was an effective treatment to decrease or eliminate PTSD symptoms of these traumatized children. Chemtob and colleagues document that 56.3% of the children no longer met criteria for PTSD according to the Child Posttraumatic Stress sickness Reaction Index (CPTSD-RI) cut off. Empirical knowledge with regard to EMDR is quite comparable to the effectiveness of psychotropic medications they have provided some support as effective PTSD treatment. However, these treatments have been far from unanimous in the monstrance of their effectiveness (Friedman, 1997). Despite the findings tha... ...ychiatric disorders associated with posttraumatic stress disorder in the general population. encompassing Psychiatry, 41, 469478.Trowell, J., Kolvin, I., Weeramanthri, T., Sadowski, H., Berelowitz, M. , Galsser, D., et al. (2002). Psychotherapy for sexually abused girls Psychopathological outcome findingsand patterns of change. British ledger of Psychiatry, 160, 234246.Resick, P. A., Nishith, P., Weaver, T., Astin, M. C., & Feuer, C. A. (2002). A comparison of cognitive processing therapy, prolonged exposure, and a time lag condition for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder in female rape victims. ledger of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 867879.Zayfert, C., DeVita, J. (2004). Residual Insomnia Following Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for PTSD. Journal of Traumatic Stress, Vol. 17, No. 1, February 2004, pp. 6973 ( 2004).