Trauma Affect Regulation

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In this paper I will be writing about the program Trauma Affect Regulation: Guide for Education and Therapy or also known as TARGET. This program is a manualized, trauma-focused psychotherapy for adolescents and/or adults suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. This program is rated EFFECTIVE on the crimesolutions.gov website. Their where significant reductions in measures of PTSD symptoms and anxiety for the treatment group compared to the control group. In this paper I will be going over the outcomes of the two main studies, who this program is for, and how it helps those in need of this program. First off, it is important for the reader to understand what trauma and PTSD is in description. Trauma is an emotional shock following

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