In Vivo Exposure Therapy for PTSD: The Essentials

Exposure helps clients to confront safe situations that they've been avoiding in a therapeutic manner while monitoring their anxiety levels.
In this presentation, Dr. Barbara Rothbaum explains how to help patients confront situations that they’ve been avoiding in a therapeutic manner.
Here are some highlights we’ve extracted from this video:
1. We introduce the in vivo exposure in session 2, beginning with the rationale.
2. In in vivo exposure, we help the patient confront realistically safe situations that they’ve been avoiding in a therapeutic manner so that something changes.
3. We teach them to communicate their level of anxiety with the SUDS scale (Subjective Units of Discomfort) on a 0 to 100 scale, in which 0 represents no anxiety and 100 represents panic level anxiety.
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[@gabrielleg6813]

Thank you so much for this series. As a clinical psychology doctoral student these have helped me better understand exposure therapy immensely.

[@RinconesAlicia]

Great video. Thank you.