PSYC 3F20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Iatrogenesis, Prefrontal Cortex, Executive Functions
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Anxiety management: teach coping skills including relaxation skills and self-talk, deals with arousal of intrusion symptoms. Compared to waitlist and usual care: reduction in clinician and self-reported ptsd severity. Compared to supportive counseling and psychodynamic therapy at 3-month follow up: reduction in clinician and self-reported ptsd severity. Reduced amygdala activity and increased pre-frontal cortex activity on fmri following treatment, in response to visual and verbal reminders of the traumatic event. If they were shown a gun in therapy or something to do with combat: so less fear and more cognitive control of reactivity. Focus on disturbing image or memory as well as the emotion and thoughts that go along with it. Desensitization: use of bilateral stimulation: client reports on associated thoughts, feelings, sensations, images that occurred during procedure, these become the focus of next phase of bilateral stimulation, desensitization continues until subjective level of.
