Techniques used for Treating Trauma
By: Mark MonteiroTotal Views: 36, Word Count: 665,
Trauma is such an event that can happen any time in life, is natural, and also extensive. The victims that are affected by trauma include those who're involved in falls, traffic accidents, illnesses, abrupt losses, and abuse along with unusual events, such as violence, natural disasters, torture, terrorist attacks, etc.
Most of the individuals exposed to traumatic events don't suffer from long term emotional damage. However, 20% of the people exposed to trauma would certainly develop post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and a higher percentage would feel some traumatic effect throughout their lives. There are some techniques used for treating trauma that would make the person more relaxed and would feel positive towards life.
Facts about Trauma
In life, there are several things that can be traumatizing. You generally experience emotional trauma when you survive an accident or a series of events that threaten your emotional and physical sense of security and safety. As mentioned earlier, some examples of traumatic events involve natural disasters, child abuse, life threatening crime, observing a violent event or killing, domestic violence, car accident, the consequences of surgery, assault, war, illnesses and disease etc.
Your personal relationship, capability to cope with regular demands of work and school, along with your health and mental well being can all be affected by the traumatic incidents. In some cases, such as during the times of natural disaster or war, the loss of housing, employment, and other main life circumstances can have overwhelming consequences on your entire existence.
Trauma has severe implications on all aspects of your life. For instance, it isn't unusual for your most vital relationships to breakdown after a major traumatic event in life; several people experience dipping grades in schools, problems related to employment and might have a major physical problem arising due to a highly stressful time too. It's during this time that therapy might be useful in assisting you though the tough times that trauma can cause.
Treatment
- Trauma is preventable and treatable
- Effective treatment of trauma and its awareness must become a primary force in society.
- Trauma is known to be a psycho-biological event. It needs to be treated at the same level as it attacks the body at the level of autonomic nervous system.
Cutting edge short term techniques used for treating trauma have been developed. They treat psychological trauma efficiently as well as help in developing flexibility to handle trauma in a better way and aid prevention. These techniques depend on the natural ability of people to cure and promote the healing vortex, that's also infectious when promoted with alertness.
Behavioral treatment of PTSD would frequently utilize some form of contact to the trauma and relaxation. Here, the individual would be told to imagine trauma aspects and at the same time, practice relaxation technique and skills. The person's physical response to the traumatic memory of the incident would be one of the focuses. Some individuals would find it extremely helpful to first be alert of the physical response and how to manage it efficiently.
Another therapy is the cognitive behavioral therapy that deals with what the incident meant to the individual. The main aim of this therapy is to have the individual with PTSD recognize the meaning they attached to the traumatic event, challenging the mistakes in beliefs and facts. They also include relaxation techniques. The aim is to connect a new meaning or thought with the traumatic incident and at the same time, lessens the symptoms related with the incident.
A traumatic incident can be extremely dangerous since it can completely destroy the self confidence of an individual. Thus, it's important that these techniques used for treating trauma are followed properly, so that they can bring out a person from it.
About the Author
Dr. Mark Monteiro is graduated from the Hazard University and done his MBA from the he University Of Illinois College Of Medicine. Currently he is working as general physician at Elmhurst Loyola Center for Health. For over 15 years he has been a pioneer in the field of physician health. He has contributed to the treatment of many diseases like- ASTHMA, TUBERCULOSIS, HIV, HEPATITIS AND ITS TREATMENT
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