Symptomatic Changes in Police Offi cers with Post-Traumatic Stress and Group Psychotherapy

Keywords

Group’s psychotherapy
stress posttraumatic
trauma
psychoanalysis
police offi cers Psicoterapia de grupo
estrés postraumático
trauma
psicoanálisis
policías

How to Cite

Vallejo, A. (2017). Symptomatic Changes in Police Offi cers with Post-Traumatic Stress and Group Psychotherapy. Terapia Psicológica, 29(1), 13-23. Retrieved from https://teps.cl/index.php/teps/article/view/159

Abstract

The article shows the changes that were symptomatic among Colombian Police offi cers (7 men and one woman aged between 18 and 45) who had post-traumatic stress after an intervention process psychoanalytically oriented group psychotherapy. The psychotherapeutic process lasted 3 months with a frequency of 2 sessions per week and a duration of 1.30 hours per session. Symptomatic changes were assessed by Scale administered by the clinician (Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale, CAPS, Blake, Weathers, Nagy, Kaloupek, Charney and Keane, 1995) and individual clinical interviews. We found that in Police offi cers,some symptoms associated with Criterion B, C, D, and of the F scale, decreased, in others increased, and there were no other changes.

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