CBT Counseling for Addressing Trauma

CBT Counseling for Addressing Trauma
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CBT Strategies for Addressing Trauma Objectives
Goals
 Identify the traumas
 Evaluate the memories of the traumas based on
 Facts
 Other Factors
 Cognitive Distortions
 Acknowledge and integrate the trauma
 Explore and address how the trauma is currently impacting the person in the present

Eliminate or mitigate vulnerabilities https://youtu.be/Agfbq1qQGi4

Steps in Processing Trauma
 Develop at least 10 distress tolerance skills https://youtu.be/DxgDOj_hsXU
 Thoughts:
 Activities
 Guided Imagery
 Sensations:

Develop Cognitive Restructuring Skills
 What is the thought
 Is it related to prior traumas or experiences?
 If so, how are those prior experiences influencing your current perception?
 Are they helping to make your current perceptions more or less accurate in the current context?
 What is different in the present context?
 What are the facts for and against your belief in the current context
 If you are using any of the following unhelpful thinking strategies, restate your thoughts watch this video https://youtu.be/V4hKLAEVTR8
 Mindreading / Jumping to conclusions
 Making decisions without sufficient information (Facts, play the tape)
 Emotional reasoning (Remind yourself that emotions are your smoke alarm)
 All or nothing thinking
 Personalization
 Catastrophizing
 Fallacies of control and fate
 Minimizing your strength/accomplishments (I am proud of myself for…)
 What is the best use of your energy to move toward those things important in your rich and meaningful life.

Before You Begin
 Consider doing these activities with a therapist or spiritual leader
 Develop a safety plan in case you start feeling overwhelmed
 Set a timer
 Only process one trauma in a session.
Autobiography
 Begin with your first memory
 Who is important in your life?
 Are they supportive and nurturing or toxic?
 How is your health?
 Are you happy? If not, why not?
 What is important in your life?
 Significant events, what caused them, your reaction
 Repeat this for each grade or year after until the present day.

Identifying Traumas
 Go through your autobiography and identify the traumatic experiences
 Start with the first one and work forward

Processing the Trauma
 What are the facts of the event?
 What are your beliefs about the event? (I should have protected him. That person did not love me. It came from out of the blue.)
 Are there any other factors, perspectives of things that you might not have considered (once you form a schema about a situation it often does not change unless you evaluate and adjust it)
 How was this experience influenced by prior experiences?
 How did the experience shape your beliefs about your ability to: Keep yourself safe? To improve the next moment and live a rich and meaningful life? To be loved? To love and trust others?
Processing the Trauma
 How did the experience shape your beliefs and expectations about other people’s trustworthiness and your general safety in the world? The future?
 Go back over each of your beliefs and complete the Cognitive Restructuring Worksheet
 What losses do you need to grieve as a result of this trauma? (ex. loss of relationships, lost time…)
 What can you do to feel empowered and safe?
 How are you different, wiser and stronger now than you were then?
 How is this event influencing you in the present? Your health? Your mood? Your attitude? Your relationships?
 This experience is part of who you are. How can you use it to help you become more like the person you want to be?
Summary
 Trauma can be insidious because, unresolved, it can negatively impact your sense of safety and empowerment.
 When trauma is effectively resolved, you will have a better idea of
 What happened
 What your role actually was
 Losses/other traumas that need to be grieved
 How you can integrate that experience in a way that can help you move toward your rich and meaningful life.

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