Visit 3

Abstract

In this visit, survivors review their practice, their response to quick relaxation, and their overall ability to use relaxation skills in a practical way since the prior visit. They also review their use of self-instructional training, review homework, and discuss any other memory and attention problems they’ve noticed. Visit 3 involves reviewing verbal rehearsal strategies (verbal rehearsal, spaced rehearsal, chunking, and rhymes) and selecting one to focus on. The survivor learns how to identify and challenge thinking that leads to excessive stress or erodes emotional strength and resilience and to practice the new memory and attention strategy by applying in daily life. The clinician introduces and teaches cognitive restructuring techniques of probability estimation and decatastrophizing.