Avaliação de efeito da psicoterapia cognitivo-comportamental em cognições e sintomas pós-traumáticos

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Mello, Patricia Gaspar
• Orientador(a): Kristensen, Christian Haag
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: PSICOLOGIA; PSICOLOGIA COGNITIVA; PSICOTERAPIA COGNITIVA; PSICOPATOLOGIA; ESTRESSE; TRAUMAS PSICOLÓGICOS
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/4842

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a pathology included in the Diagnostic and Statistic Manuals as an Anxiety Disorder since DSM-III and has been experienced by roughly 6,8% of general population. The posttraumatic cognitions of individuals affected by the disorder contribute to the initiation and maintenance of PTSD. The Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapeutic modality that aims the modification of this dysfunctional thoughts. The literature still doesn’t show conclusive data about which cognitions can be change with CBT and this study aims to fill in this blank. The objective of the two followed articles is to clarify some questions in this area. The first study, called “Cognitive-Behavior Strategies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatment”, is a literature review about the different strategies for the disorder’s treatment and its empirical contributions. The second article, called “Evaluation of the Effect of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy in Posttraumatic Cognitions and Symptoms” is a two-case study that analyzes the treatment of two bank-employees diagnosed with PTSD and its respective results before, during and after the treatment on the matter of posttraumatic cognitions, symptoms and physiological repercussions. This research’s results corroborate with the literature on the matter of CBT to the posttraumatic symptoms’ remission as well as modifications on the dysfunctional beliefs and also shows hypothesis about the effectiveness or not of some techniques.