P.E.T. is a psychotherapy for PTSD. Created and developed by Edna Foa, Ph. D., P.E.T. teaches you to gradually approach trauma related memories, feelings, and situations that you have been avoiding since the trauma. (Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD, VA). This process makes an affected individual repeat the event over and over. This helps make the memory of such tragic and scary event less and less scary. Once a victim can overcome their fear of the event, it is less likely to affect their everyday lives. The more a victim of PTSD avoids the places thoughts, etc. of the event, the worse it can be. Simple things can trigger the violence actions in one affected by PTSD. The triggers can be nearly anything that has to do with the event that
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P.E.T. is not a onetime deal that cures a person from their fear or anxiety. This type of therapy lasts for around 3 months, 8-15 weeks. There are many sessions that the individual will go through, usually once a week. Each sessions teaches a different thing, and every week’s session can get harder and harder for the patient. In the first and second sessions “patients learn new ways of breathing that helps them deal with anxiety…and list things or places one has avoided since the trauma.” ( Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD, VA). In later sessions, patients will talk in extreme detail with their therapists about the event. The therapist can then tell what has actually triggered the fear and help the patient realize and overcome this fear. By the fifteenth weeks session the patient should have a very highly decrease in fear of anxiety of the memories and thoughts of the event. P.E.T. is a very effective therapy, or process, for treating people with PTSD. After people go through the program of P.E.T., they have sufficient declines in anxiety and fear. P.E.T. can also be used to treat patients with depression, but was originally developed for PTSD. 90% of patients have a significant reduction of fear during and after their
P.E.T. is not a onetime deal that cures a person from their fear or anxiety. This type of therapy lasts for around 3 months, 8-15 weeks. There are many sessions that the individual will go through, usually once a week. Each sessions teaches a different thing, and every week’s session can get harder and harder for the patient. In the first and second sessions “patients learn new ways of breathing that helps them deal with anxiety…and list things or places one has avoided since the trauma.” ( Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD, VA). In later sessions, patients will talk in extreme detail with their therapists about the event. The therapist can then tell what has actually triggered the fear and help the patient realize and overcome this fear. By the fifteenth weeks session the patient should have a very highly decrease in fear of anxiety of the memories and thoughts of the event. P.E.T. is a very effective therapy, or process, for treating people with PTSD. After people go through the program of P.E.T., they have sufficient declines in anxiety and fear. P.E.T. can also be used to treat patients with depression, but was originally developed for PTSD. 90% of patients have a significant reduction of fear during and after their