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Acute Stress Disorder Learning Center

Treatments could include:
Treatment for acute stress disorder usually includes a combination of antidepressant medications and short-term psychotherapy.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Therapy for ASD requires the use of several treatment modalities because the disorder affects systems of belief and meaning, interpersonal relationships, and occupational functioning as well as physical well-being.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
A therapeutic approach based on the principle that maladaptive moods and behavior can be changed by replacing distorted or inappropriate ways of thinking with thought patterns that are healthier and more realistic. Cognitive therapy is an approach...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is an action-oriented form of psychosocial therapy that assumes that maladaptive, or faulty, thinking patterns cause maladaptive behavior and "negative" emotions. (Maladaptive behavior is behavior that is counter-produ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Cognitive therapy is a psychosocial (both psychological and social) therapy that assumes that faulty thought patterns (called cognitive patterns) cause maladaptive behavior and emotional responses. The treatment focuses on changing thoughts in ord...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
The treatment of mental or emotional disorders and adjustment problems through the use of psychological techniques rather than through physical or biological means.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Psychotherapy can be defined as a means of treating psychological or emotional problems such as neurosis or personality disorder through verbal and nonverbal communication. It is the treatment of psychological distress through talking with a speci...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Psychotherapy can be defined as a means of treating such psychological or emotional problems as neurosis or personality disorder through verbal and nonverbal communication. It is the treatment of psychological distress through talking with a speci...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
The treatment of mental or emotional disorders and adjustment problems through the use of psychological techniques rather than through physical or biological means. Psychoanalysis, the first modern form of psychotherapy, was called the "talking cu...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Psychotherapy integration is defined as an approach to psychotherapy that includes a variety of attempts to look beyond the confines of single-school approaches in order to see what can be learned from other perspectives. It is characterized by an...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
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