Treatment of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder: A constructive-narrative approach

The article presents background, key concepts, and treatment implications o f a constuctive narrative approach and core tasks of psychotherapy with pat ients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), The approach proposes that the language individuals use, the metaphors they employ, have important im plications for how they appraise traumatic events and how they construct na rratives. The aim of the therapy is to begin to tell new stories that move patients from viewing themselves as 'victims' to becoming 'survivors'.