Currently, CBT is considered the most effective treatment for ASD. It has also been found that treating with CBT early enough helps prevent ASD from developing into PTSD, a similar condition with more long-term effects.  CBT for ASD focuses on changing the way you perceive risk associated with the trauma you experienced, and the focus is to process the trauma in order to desensitize you to the triggers you have developed around your trauma. Your therapist will educate you on the physical, emotional, and psychological responses to trauma so that you are better able to recognize your triggers and responses. Your therapist will also explain how and why the process is important to desensitize you to the experience. Your therapist will also provide relaxation training to use during anxiety responses outside the office, as well as to use in session while verbally processing the trauma or imagining the trauma and describing it out loud. Your therapist will also use CBT to help you reframe your experience and help you to overcome survivor's guilt if necessary. For example, in the case of ASD, the patient may have experienced a car accident that caused a death. He may now be terrified of getting into a car because he feels he will die. The therapist will work out how the patient can think about this in a different way. If the patient is 25 years old, the therapist may say that the patient has been getting into cars for 25 years and didn't die, so statistics are in his favor. Psychological debriefing involves a mental health intervention very quickly after a trauma, ideally before symptoms have developed into ASD. The patient will undergo an intense therapy session to talk out the whole trauma with a professional. The drawback of this treatment is that it must be done very soon after the event to be effective. The effects of psychological debriefing are considered inconsistent. Some studies find that psychological debriefing has no long-term benefit for victims of trauma. This should not discourage you from seeking psychological help, it just means that your counselor will probably use different treatments if debriefing proves ineffective. In addition to one-on-one therapy sessions, group treatments can also help individuals suffering from ASD. These sessions are usually overseen by a mental health professional who will guide the conversation and make sure all group members have a positive experience. A support group can help prevent feelings of loneliness and isolation, because you'll be around people who have had similar experiences. Like psychological debriefing, there is doubt that group therapy is effective when treating ASD, though participants might enjoy the level of camaraderie that develops in group sessions. Often, ASD leads sufferers to fear particular places or situations that remind them of the trauma. This can be a significant hardship on the person's life, because he or she may stop socializing or going to work to avoid reminders of the trauma. If untreated, these fears can develop into PTSD.  With exposure therapy, the patient is gradually exposed the the stimulant that causes anxiety. The hope is that this exposure will gradually desensitize the patient to the stimulus and he or she can face it without fear in everyday life. The treatment often starts with visualization exercises. The therapist will have the patient visualize the stresser in as much detail as possible. Gradually these sessions will progress until the therapist accompanies the patient in facing the stresser in a real-life scenario. For example, a patient may have witnessed a shooting at a library, and is now afraid to enter a library again. The therapist would begin by having the patient visualize being in a library and describe how he or she feels. The therapist may then decorate the office like a library, to make the patient feel like he or she is in one, but still knows it is a controlled environment. Finally, the two of them would go to a library together.
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