Best Practices for Counselors Who Treat Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

✍ Scribed by Sylvia A. Marotta

• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 150 KB
• Volume: 78
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1556-6678
• DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6676.2000.tb01933.x

✦ Synopsis

Counselors in settings as diverse as schools, corporations, and community agencies are well aware of the numbers of people in the United States who daily come in contact with stressors that are extreme and potentially traumatic. Automobile accidents, disasters, or encounters with interpersonal violence are ubiquitous. Professional counselors, regardless of their professional identification or the settings in which they work, are very likely providing services to many people who are in distress after traumatic exposures. These counselors would benefit from knowing what other mental health professionals consider to be best practices for preventing and treating posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSDs). The purpose of this article is to summarize for counselors those best practices that have been recently developed and published by a multidisciplinary expert group (E. B. Foa, J. R. T. Davidson, & A. Frances, 1999) in their article “Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.”