Addressing Disorders: A Case Study

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The first session included the "Art Therapy Projective Imagery Assessment and an interview with semi structured interview questions."(Campbell, 2016) The second session had "psychoeducational material about PTSD, goal setting and safety…"(Campbell, 2016) and they also discussed triggers and symptoms. The third session the veterans were asked to create 6 images and narrate them back in the third person. The images were as follows, the first image was a time they felt safe and peaceful before the trauma. The second image was the last moment they could remember directly before the trauma. The third image was what had happen during the trauma. The fourth image was the first moment they could recall after the trauma. The fifth image was when the

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