Psychiatria Danubina, Vol. 22 No. 2, 2010.
Original scientific paper
CLINICAL EXPERIENCES IN TREATING PTSD PATIENTS BY COMBINIG INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP PSYCHOTERAPY
Vedran Bilić
; Department of Psychological Medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb
Iva Nemčić-Moro
; Department of Psychological Medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb
Vana Karšić
; Department of Psychological Medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb
Vesna Grgić
; Department of Psychological Medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb
Stanislava Stojanović-Špehar
; Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia
Darko Marčinko
; Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
PTSD is a complex psychobiological disorder that couses disfunctionality in many areas. In treating PTSD different models have been applied, however, no general consensus on the method of treatment has yet been achieved. At the Clinic for Psychol.ogical Medicine we have developed the model of combined treatment for PTSD patients that involves outpatient individual psychoterapy, psychopharmacotherapy and group psyhoterapeutic techniques introduced within repeated day-hospital treatments. In this paper the efficiency of the above mentioned model has been explored. Three PTSD patients have been presented. We assessed changes in psychological functioning of our subjects on the basic of clinical observation and analasys of the session protocols. The model of combined and long-term treatment of PTSD in which the approach to traumatised patients has been mostly supportive, including supportive psychoterapeutic interventions and psychoaromatherapy, has proved to be efficient in achieving integration of traumatic experiences and consolidation of traumatised Self. Combination of individual and group approach facilitates the analisys of traumatic transference, whereas more mature defence patterns become stronger and integration of traumatic experiences improved. Consolidation of the Self leads to better socilization.
Keywords
PTSD; model of long-term combined treatment; individual and group psychoterapy
Hrčak ID:
55649
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2010.
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