Diagnóstico y plan terapéutico con enfoque cognitivo conductual para el trastorno de estrés agudo en adulto.

Abstract

This essay aims to develop a psychotherapeutic plan with a cognitive behavioral approach to stress and anxiety management in patients with acute stress disorder. This disorder is a condition that occurs in people who suffered or witnessed at some time in their life an event that causes trauma. The symptoms presented by this disorder are nightmares, sleep disturbance, decreased social, family relationships, altered sense of reality, problems with concentration, severe or prolonged psychological distress, dissociative reactions, manifesting after three days to four weeks after traumatic event. The ideal psychotherapeutic techniques, according to the literature review, are based on the cognitive behavioral approach which is aimed at changing erroneous behaviors, through the modification of thoughts and beliefs.