Although treatment studies for trauma disorders are still quite young, there are a few approaches that have shown to be effective in treating trauma victims. The treatment that has shown compelling evidence for effectiveness in treating trauma disorder is exposure therapy (Bradley et al. 2005). Exposure treatment holds that fear is learned through classical conditioning and by exposing the victim to the trauma in either by live exposure or imaginal exposure can decrease the fear response of the victim (Bryant et al. 2003). Through exposure therapy the victim can learn that the memories of what happened to them are not dangerous and also bring them to the reality that the trauma was a specific event in the past and does not make the present
