Imaginal Exposure for PTSD: Emotional Processing Preparation and Rationale

Imaginal exposure involves recounting the trauma several times during a session, then processing the experience, which involves re-learning about the trauma.
In this presentation, Dr. Barbara Rothbaum discusses how to help patients revisit the trauma memory in their imagination to promote emotional processing.
Here are some highlights we’ve extracted from this video:
* In imaginal exposure, we ask the patient to go back in their mind’s eye to the time of the trauma and recount it out loud repeatedly, several times per session, and record it for homework practice.
* After the imaginal exposure, you’ll process the experience with the patient for about 15 to 20 minutes.
* In processing, you make new learning that occurred in the exposure explicit to the patient.
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[@boscorellie1]

These are excellent training modules. Thank you so much for making the videos!

[@mr.anindyabanerjee9905]

Truly very enlightening explanation of the Imaginal Exposure technique.

[@mindovermovement6401]

Thanks