Essay On Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Children have profound sensory impacts from effects and symptoms of being exposed to traumatic events. A traumatic event is an experience that causes physical, emotional, psychological distress or harm. It’s an event that is perceived and experienced as a threat to ones safety or to the stability of ones world. Research has found that traumatic events have on children it impede their cognitive, physical, psychological, affective, interpersonal and behavioral function. Also, the symptom of the exposer that researchers found that have presented it selves early is Acute Stress Disorder, Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Adjustment disorder. More so, statistics have shown that 26% of children in the united states of American will wittiness or experience a traumatic event before the age of four; therefore this paper is to explain and break down the research and case studies on the effect and symptoms of traumatic events. Here are some of the treatment plans that have been used within the last 10 years; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and Art Therapy.
Cognitive therapy is most often used in conjunction with behavioral therapy when used with children and most often is aimed at trying to break the circle of “emotion – thought – behavior” that is thought to cause most of the symptomology that the therapy is intended to ameliorate. The idea is that a person feels an emotion which leads to a thought that is uncomfortable which in turn leads to a behavior that makes the feeling better, but the feeling is then affected by the behavior so that it leads to another uncomfortable thought which leads to another and possibly even more inappropriate behavior which leads to another feeling and so on. Cognitive therapy is an attempt