Assignment 18 Trauma.docx
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Assignment Brief 18
The front page of your assignment should provide the following information:
Student ID
Class
Module
Special considerations
Mitigating circumstances
Module
5
Assignment No.
18
Submission date
31/03/23
Title
Critically discuss the assessment and treatment of trauma, including PTSD, within a CBT framework.
Assignment brief
Assignment weighting
Present a critical discussion of CBT approaches to the assessment and treatment of trauma.
You should demonstrate your understanding of definitions, prevalence and effects of trauma, including PTSD. You should evidence your knowledge of assessment protocols including trauma specific risk assessment and risk management.
You should critically discuss recommended evidence based treatment interventions and the theoretical constructs and rationale which underpin them.
A critique of the approach based on current literature should be provided, with reference to evidence-based practice, effectiveness, and limitations.
Your essay must provide a coherent and sequential account, with appropriate use of grammar, spelling and punctuation and referenced in Harvard style.
The weightings for each part of the essay are as follows:
Assessment & diagnosis
30%
Risk assessment and management
30%
Interventions & theoretical constructs
30%
Grammar, punctuation, structure & flow and references
10%
Aims
1. To advance knowledge of the principles and concepts of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and other core psychological theories.
2. To acquire a critical understanding of common mental health disorders.
3. To consolidate and advance the utilisation of therapeutic skills deriving from CBT and other theoretical models.
4. To further develop the application of the theories to psychological assessment and formulation.
Course Learning
1. To critically analyse and evaluate selected components of the given models in relation to CBT.
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Outcomes (Numbers 1, 5)
Module Learning Outcomes (1,2,3)
2. To demonstrate a critical knowledge and understanding of specific mental health disorders, and align this knowledge to recommend interventions and empirical protocols contained in Module 8.
3. To communicate, using appropriate methods, how concepts and interventions from CBT and other given models inform therapeutic practice.
Submission details
To be submitted via turnitin by the above date
Guidance on size of submission
2000 words, +/- 10%. Submissions out-with these guidelines will automatically fail.
Feedback policy
Submissions will be returned in approximately 4 weeks from date of submission. All grades are provisional until ratified by the Academic Board.
Marking and Moderation policy
Assessments are marked anonymously with a sample 2nd marked and a further sample Internally Verified.
this essay failed and this was the feedback i got so can you change it to be like this please?
We need to say a lot more about risk of harm to self and others in this essay. Include information about the risk of suicide among people with PTSD, and detail some of the ways the therapist can be alert to this risk and how to assess for it. Include some interventions that could be used in session, like Safety Planning, as well as saying that the person should be referred on or other relevant people should be involved if the suicide risk can’t be managed in the therapeutic session. Also mention that the client should be made aware that their confidentiality agreement would need to be broken if this happened.
-You’ve given a lot of info on the risk of developing PTSD – this could fit in the assessment portion of the essay, as factors contributing to development of PTSD, more than the “risk” portion.
– The layout of the treatment portion of the essay could be tightened up. Try structuring it like this:
1. What the NICE guidelines suggest for treating PTSD, eg. how many sessions of BT therapy? Maybe add something that Matrix says about how to treat, as well?
2. What is the model for PTSD that a therapist woudl use with their client? Talk about the Ehlers Clark model, and give a citation. Include, why is socialisation to the model important for successful therapy?
3. What the CBT manual says about how to treat PTSD. You could use the Treatment Protocol inputs from class for the basis of this and look at Leahy or Zayfert’s books for references. I can email you copies if you need them.
4. The interventions are mainly Prolonged Exposure and Cognitive Restructuring. Talk about these two interventions and link them to the theories they stem from (Two Factor Theory, Emotional Processing Theory, dual-representation theory (see the Trauma Theory pt 2 input from class) and give references for the information)
5. We don’t have much space for talking about other interventions but you could mention ACT and NET towards the end as other modalities that might suit PTSD clients. Also EMDR could be mentioned here as it is in the NICE guidelines as well.
– could you include information about what factors contribute to successful therapy for trauma. Maybe mention that a lot of clients drop out of trauma therapy, why is this? Therapist competency is another important factor here, why is that important? CBT requires clients to do homework between sessions, does that have an impact on successful outcomes? Is there therapeutic relationship important for working on PTSD?
– Are there any outcome studies or facts you could include that show the effectiveness or limitations of trauma focussed CBT? Has it been shown to work, are the results maintained over time? It might not help some people, why would that be?