Post-traumatic stress disorder psychoeducation is the provision of information about the disorder and its treatment for the individual and his/her family after diagnosis.
The aim of post-traumatic stress disorder psychoeducation is to provide the patient with detailed information about what this disorder is, its symptoms, treatment, how to cope with this disorder, and to convey the information about how these processes will progress to the family as well as the patient.
The aim of PTSD psychoeducation is to get the patient to accept this condition and to get positive results, since PTSD can occur in everyone like other mental disorders and it is possible to treat it.
The treatment of PTSD starts with PTSD psychoeducation and continues with medication and psychotherapy.
In addition to the education given to sick individuals, psychoeducation is also given to healthy individuals in order to raise awareness, and with this education, individuals are informed about the diseases and when the symptoms of these diseases are observed, early diagnosis can be possible, this can provide a great deal of information to the sick individual both in the stages of accepting the disease or disorder and in the treatment stages. Post-traumatic stress disorder psychoeducation is also preferred in patients who do not want to start treatment, in patients who start treatment and stop after a while, or in cases where the patient does not respond to the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. This can be of great help in the treatment of PTSD.
After the diagnosis of PTSD, PTSD psychoeducation is given and the patient is then treated with medication and psychotherapy. Cognitive-behavioral therapies and EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) therapy are commonly used in psychotherapy.
Post-traumatic stress disorder can negatively affect the individual as well as family members and the immediate environment. The family of the patient diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder has a great role to play here. In order for the patient to make a rapid recovery in treatment, the approach of family members to the patient should be therapeutic and should not be accusatory. If the family has the opposite attitude, psychoeducation comes into play here. And this situation is solved with psychoeducation.
