The treatment of PSTD
According to Lewis, Roberts &Andrew et al 2020, PTSD treatment normally helps the patients to reduce the physical and emotional symptoms as they may result to serious complications. Also, it enables the victims to improve their daily functioning or performance by helping them to handle and manage the memories of the event that lead to this disorder. There are two types of PTSD treatment and they include; medication and psychotherapy. The doctor can recommend one type of treatment to the patient, but in some cases, both treatments may be used. In psychotherapy treatment, the health specialists normally use counseling classes to the victim patient, and in medication treatment, the patient uses the medical drugs to reduce the PTSD symptoms.
Psychotherapy
The treatment by use of psychotherapy highly contributes to the PTSD patients as it help them to learn other skills on how to manage the symptoms disorder. Also, this treatment enables the patients to develop other ways of coping with the painful trauma. The therapy treatment also targets in educating the victims together with the people around them, e.g., family members or even friends on more about PTSD. The knowledge about PTSD to people around them helps them to contribute a lot in the healing process of the patient as the person feel free to discuss any associated fear lead by memories of the traumatic incident or event. In the healthcare sector, there are different psychotherapy approaches used by health professionals to handle and treat PTSD and they include;
Family therapy: most of the doctors have been using family therapy to treat PTSD as it is very useful. The reason as to why this therapy treatment is important is because any behavior of the PTSD patient may affect the people around them, e.g. friends or family members. For example, most of the PTSD patients tend to experience nightmares and sometimes the patient might be so violence at night and tend to run away home. Thus, it is the responsibility of the family members to handle these patients with care and ensure that any change of behavior does not lead to more harm to the family.