e-Mental Health and PTSD
Yesterday I almost cried in the middle of a consultation. I was just back from 2 weeks holiday and one of my regular patients, a young woman with a big problem with self-harm, came to tell me that she’s managed to survive the time I was away without any self-harm. The last time I went away, 12 months before, I had returned to find her in intensive care after a near lethal overdose.
This patient is a survivor of very serious childhood abuse and has had a lot of therapy including DBT groups – regarded as the gold standard in the treatment of emotional dysregulation. Six months ago she had started an online course for PTSD sufferers and something had clicked for her. It had been torrid but she had emerged from it much stronger. In the last 3 months she had been able to refrain from self-harm but we saw my holiday as a big test.
The online PTSD course marked a turning point. It gave her a better understanding of what was happening for her and allowed her to pull together all the skills she had learnt leading up to it.
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Gerhard is a full professor of Clinical Psychology at Linköping University, Sweden since 2003, an
d affiliated researcher at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. Professor Andersson is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of CBT delivered through information and communication technology, as well as the author of the book “The Internet and CBT: a clinical guide”.
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The PTSD Program for people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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