Coaching practices for How to Handle Post Traumatic Stress with My 6yr Old Daughter
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Something scared my child
- The storm has finally passed and my kid is calm again, and I keep wanting to either just move on or fix the situation for them
- I keep blaming myself for still being this messed up so long after it happened, like I should be over it by now
- I’ve been focused on the obvious wound
- The raw panic has actually eased, but underneath it these convictions are still lodged in me
Practices that may help
- Name it to tame it: tell the story of the big feeling
Help the child narrate what happened and how it felt — storytelling is brain integration.
The Whole-Brain Child (Siegel & Bryson) - Problem-solve together once the child is calm
After the emotional storm passes, invite the child to find a solution with you.
Emotion Coaching (John Gottman) - Understand the PTSD cycle — education is part of treatment
Learning why PTSD works the way it does reduces self-blame and makes the logic of exposure credible.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy: Principles, Practices, and the Evidence - Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), developed by Patricia Resick, treats PTSD primarily by identifying and challenging "stuck points" — distorted or overgeneralized beliefs about safety, trust, control, intimacy, and self-worth that the trauma produced. Multiple large randomized trials show CPT is among the most effective available treatments for PTSD, comparable to Prolonged Exposure. The core concepts and some worksheets are publicly available; the full protocol benefits significantly from a CPT-trained therapist. - Examine stuck points across the five disrupted domains
CPT organizes trauma-disrupted beliefs into five domains — Safety, Trust, Power, Esteem, Intimacy — to ensure none are missed.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD - Process cognitions after an exposure session
After each imaginal exposure, discuss what came up — the stuck meanings and beliefs — not just the distress level.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy: Principles, Practices, and the Evidence - Safe Place Installation
Anchor a vivid, calming mental image you can return to when distress spikes during processing.
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - Bilateral Stimulation During Active Processing
Hold the distressing memory in mind while tracking rhythmic left-right stimulation — and notice what shifts.
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - Understand imaginal exposure: revisiting the traumatic memory deliberately
Imaginal exposure has the person revisit the traumatic memory in detail to allow the brain to process it as a past event.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy: Principles, Practices, and the Evidence - Know that CPT-C (cognitive only) skips the trauma narrative
A cognitive-only version of CPT omits the written trauma account and may be more tolerable for some people.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
Related concerns
- Community Ptsd Treatment
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), developed by Patricia Resick, treats PTSD primarily by identifying and challenging "stuck points" — distorted or overgeneralized beliefs about safety, trust, control, intimacy, and self-worth that the trauma produced. Multiple large randomized trials show CPT is among the most effective available treatments for PTSD, comparable to Prolonged Exposure. The core concepts and some worksheets are publicly available; the full protocol benefits significantly from a CPT-trained therapist.
- Emotional Processing Ptsd
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), developed by Patricia Resick, treats PTSD primarily by identifying and challenging "stuck points" — distorted or overgeneralized beliefs about safety, trust, control, intimacy, and self-worth that the trauma produced. Multiple large randomized trials show CPT is among the most effective available treatments for PTSD, comparable to Prolonged Exposure. The core concepts and some worksheets are publicly available; the full protocol benefits significantly from a CPT-trained therapist.
- Ptsd Psychoeducation
Learning why PTSD works the way it does reduces self-blame and makes the logic of exposure credible.
Understand the PTSD cycle — education is part of treatment
- Why Ptsd Persists
Learning why PTSD works the way it does reduces self-blame and makes the logic of exposure credible.
- Avoidance Maintains Ptsd
Learning why PTSD works the way it does reduces self-blame and makes the logic of exposure credible.
- Identify Stuck Points Ptsd
Name the specific beliefs about safety, trust, control, esteem, or intimacy that the trauma has frozen.
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