Edna B Foa

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“IF you develop a wonderful protocol, its’s useless if nobody uses it,” Edna B Foa Edna B Foa was born in Haifa IIsral 1937, she earned her BA in psychology and Literature from Dar IIan University in 1962. Foa earned her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Illinois in 1970 and that same year complete her PhD in Clinical Psychology and Personality at the University of Missouri. Foa is an internationally renowned authority on the psychopathology and treatment of anxiety. She approaches the understanding and treatment of mental disorders from a cognitive behavioral perspective. Edna B Foa Has made a significant contribution in the recognition and treatment of PTSD which encompasses trauma, stress, anxiety, fear, depression to name a few. Foa makes a point to clarify there are PTE-Exposed individuals who do not develop PTSD and PTSD individuals. PTE individuals show a lot of the same responses of PTSD. Feeling horrified and terrified, e.g. watching the collapse of the World Trade Center. Disbelief and shock, traumatic grief symptoms such as witnessing a horrible traumatic event, in person or on TV. Depression and hopelessness, for example life for the people who lived near or were around hurricane Katrina, Turning to alcohol or substance abuse to null their feelings, they also exhibit impaired functioning. Generally, PTE individuals will not develop into chronic PTSD. PTSD in turn has the same symptoms but to greater dysfunction in their lives. PTSD persons will have re-experiencing distressing thoughts and feelings about the trauma, nightmares, and flashbacks. PTSD individuals will exhibit isolation and avoidance by not talking about it, avoiding situations people places sounds especially smells ... ... middle of paper ... ... getting the word out, The U.S. military is embracing PE. The Department of Veterans Affairs is putting the protocol into wide use and implementing programs to teach it across the various services. Dr. Foa’s life work has been to help people define a normal life for themselves, using the cognitive behavior approach really puts the individual in the driver’s seat of their own recovery. The individual is guided to interact with all their feelings, and senses to reunite themselves to regaining their lives to a normal state. What a novel idea? Your trauma your recovery. “IF you develop a wonderful protocol, its’s useless if nobody uses it,” Edna B Foa Works Cited Seeing the silver lining: potential benefits of trauma exposure in college students Damion J. Grassoa*, Lawrence H. Cohena, Jason S. Moserb, Greg Hajcakc, Edna B. Foad and Robert F. Simonsa

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