Abstract
People who suffer from childhood sexual abuse have a tendency to later
develop post-traumatic stress disorder. They may re-experience the
traumatic event and associated psychological distress, avoid talking about
traumatic event, experience low self-worth, andinability to make healthy
relationships. They mayfeel guilt about the trauma. This article illustrates
how a survivor of childhood sexual abuse learned to manage her intrusive
symptoms of post-traumatic stress and re-structured abuse related beliefs
and schemas. The present case is an attempt to provide therapeutic
intervention to a 20 years old girl who suffered from childhood sexual
abuse. The patient came to Center for Clinical Psychology (CCP),
University of the Punjab with the complaints of hyper-ventilation,
vertigo, blindness and immobility of body upon recalling her childhood
traumatic events from the last 2 months. It was hypothesized that method
of Imagery Re-scripting(Smucker, Dancu, Foa, &Niederee, 1995) would
alter patient’s dysfunctional abuse related beliefs such as feelings of
victimization and powerlessness into empowerment. In the present case
study, ABA research design was used. At the first stage (A),
psychological assessment was carried out and the patient was diagnosed
according to DSM-Vwith Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In the
treatment phase (B), the patient was treated withImagery Re-scripting
which involves Imaginal exposure and Re-scripting process. A total of 8
sessions were conducted over a period of 2 months. Post assessment
(Stage A) showed that technique of imagery re-scripting proved to bean
effective method for the patientssuffering from PTSD.
Nayab Ali , Humaira Naz. (2017) AN INCEST CASE STUDY: SUFFERING FROM PTSD, Pakistan Journal of Professional Psychology Research and Practice, Volume 8 No.1, Volume 8.
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