Overcoming the Trauma of Your Motor Vehicle Accident: A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program

by Edward J. Hickling, Edward B. Blanchard

Overview

It is estimated that over 3 million people per year are injured in motor vehicle accidents and up to 45% of people in a serious auto accident develop posttraumatic stress disorder.

Written by the creators of an empirically supported cognitive-behavioral therapy program, this workbook includes all the information necessary for a client to learn the appropriate skills to overcome their MVA-related PTSD. When used in conjunction with the corresponding therapist guide, this book provides a complete treatment package with a proven success rate.

Through the use of this workbook, clients will become active participants in their supervised treatment. Clients will learn to alleviate their suffering through a variety of skills including relaxation techniques and exposure exercises. In addition, this workbook gives clients the opportunity to deal with other issues that may have resulted from the accident such as anger, numbness, estrangement, and others.

Overcoming the Trauma of Your Motor Vehicle Accident Workbook comes complete with assessments to be completed at various stages throughout treatment, as well as blank forms used to monitor progress that can be photocopied or downloaded from the Treatments That Work website. It is a one-of-a-kind resource that allows clients to work alongside their therapist to personalize their treatment strategy and overcome their PTSD.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195306071
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/25/2006
Series:	Treatments That Work
Edition description:	Workbook
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	10.99(w) x 8.34(h) x 0.27(d)

About the Author

The State University of New York at Albany

The State University of New York at Albany

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Overview of the Program3. Pre-Treatment Assessment4. Session 15. Session 26. Session 37. Session 48. Session 59. Session 610. Mid-Treatment Reassessment11. Sessions 7-912. End of Treatment Reassessment13. Session 10-Termination SessionReferencesAbout the Authors

Editorial Reviews

"This is a wonderfully important and essential workbook for the client with MVA related PTSD. Strongly recommended!"—Doody's

From the Publisher

Reviewer: Nicholas Greco IV, MS, BCETS, CATSM, FAAETS (C3 Education and Research, Inc.)
Description: This is the client workbook to a two-part set that is focused on the cognitive-behavioral treatment program for clients who have suffered a motor vehicle accident (MVA). This is an evidence-based treatment that is to be used in conjunction with supervised treatment.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide an evidence-based treatment program for PTSD as a result of a motor vehicle accident. The authors provide this workbook to address the unmet needs of those who do not fully recover without professional treatment. The goal of this book is to share a treatment approach that is the product of more than 15 years of working with MVA survivors. Given the fact that MVAs are the leading cause of PTSD in the general population, this book is much needed and meets not only the authors', but also the readers' objectives.
Audience: The workbook is for any client suffering from PTSD related to an MVA who has a clinician well versed in cognitive-behavioral therapy. The client's workbook and the therapist's guide work in tandem to give the client tasks to work on outside of the therapist's office. The authors and researchers involved in this program are unquestionably experts in the field.
Features: The workbook acts to substantiate the verbal information from the therapist in the form of written exercises with an emphasis on key problem areas such as fear and to incorporate relaxation training. This is a ten-session course that begins with the client's understanding of PTSD, working through negative self-talk, relaxation, numbing, and a termination session. This is a self-contained program that is well detailed and described in the workbook. This is a highly affordable and fairly easy to implement treatment program.
Assessment: This is a wonderfully important and essential workbook for the client with MVA related PTSD. Strongly recommended!

Doody's Review Service