Women's Stress
Disorders Treatment
Program
William S. Middleton
VA Hospital
2500 Overlook Terrace
Madison, WI  53705

Phone: 608-280-7084

Women's Stress Disorders Treatment Program

Treatments

The Basics

• Basic information about trauma and PTSD
• How ready are you to make a change?
  • General Info
  • Quiz
• Therapy skills for consumers

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Strategies that Help in the Moment

• Taking care of yourself
• Comforting yourself
• Riding out uncomfortable feelings
• Regulating Emotions
• Mindfulness
  • The basic concepts
  • The first steps
  • Sorting out sensations and facts from judgments and feelings
  • Skills for bringing your attention back
  • How does this work in everyday life?
• Improving the moment
• Relaxation strategies

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Strategies to stay on course

• Mindfulness
  • The basic concepts
  • The first steps
  • Sorting out sensations and facts from judgments and feelings
  • Skills for bringing your attention back
  • How does this work in everyday life?
• Making and Keeping Friends
• Enhancing Relationships
  • General communication skills
  • Deciding if an issue is worth raising
  • Assertiveness
  • Assumptions that affect relationships
  • Possible rights and responsibilities in relationships
  • What to do if nothing seems to work
• Creating meaning

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Special topics

• Dealing with flashbacks
• Improving sleep
• Coping with chronic pain
• Abuse and safety issues
• Alcohol and drug facts for women
• Eating disorders
• Grief
• Fibromyalgia
• Fibromyalgia Behavior Changes
• Medications
• Suggestions for support people

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