A link to help with the questions portion part of the paper
Questions I would ask regarding sexuality
- A thorough assessment-getting a better understanding of the clients' whole take on spirituality and homosexuality
- When did this situation begin to affect your personal life?
- How did you feel when your therapist pursued you sexually?
- When did he start to feel attracted to men?
- Why is creating his brutal self-critical thought
- I would ask him questions about his past, need to know everything about his past
- When he met his wife, what attracted him to his wife?
- How is the relationship with his wife?
- Is there a disconnect with her because she is a woman?
Management piece of the paper- interventions used will be
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy — CBT for PTSD includes both cognitive and behavioral components. In cognitive therapy, the therapist helps the patient identify and correct distorted, maladaptive beliefs [9]. Behavioral therapy uses thought exercises or real experiences to facilitate symptom reduction and improved functioning. Additional components such as education, relaxation exercises, coping skills training, stress management, or assertiveness training are often included in CBT.
- Cognitive processing therapy – Components of cognitive processing therapy include psychoeducation, written accounts about the impact of the traumatic event on one’s life, and cognitive restructuring. Cognitive restructuring focuses on addressing maladaptive beliefs about the traumatic event and the implications of the trauma on one’s life. Individuals examine thoughts and feelings and learn to challenge maladaptive thoughts and overgeneralized beliefs about safety, trust, power, control, and intimacy. In some versions, the individual writes a detailed account of the trauma and reads it in the presence of the therapist.
- Present-centered therapy – Present-centered therapy is a time-limited treatment for PTSD that focuses on increasing adaptive responses to current life stressors and difficulties that are directly or indirectly related to trauma or PTSD symptoms. A Cochrane meta-analysis showed present-centered therapy had greater reductions in PTSD symptoms than inactive controls but inferior reductions to trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapies