Cbt Vs Group Therapy

CBT focuses on addressing the client’s thoughts and thought processes, so logically peoples from different backgrounds or cultures will have different social norms or roles. What could be seen as concerning from the Western viewpoint, could be normal in a different culture such as Hmong or Hispanic. Traditional interventions such as CBT and have generally failed to consider healing practices of other cultures and instead has focused on Western culture as a primary identification point when considering social norms, etc. There is a growing trend to recognize culture as a critical piece in therapeutic diagnosis and treatment as evidenced by the changes included in the DSM-5.
Another tradition intervention is group therapy. In group therapy, the client talks with a group of people who also have been through a trauma and who have PTSD.
Non-traditional therapeutic interventions seemed hard to find, but I eventually found a couple. The first one is Thought Field Therapy which was discovered and developed by Dr. Roger Callahan, a clinical psychologist from California. TFT therapy is a tapping technique that heals trauma by moving the body’s energies in specific ways based on the meridian points on the body. These are the same points used in acupuncture. The idea is that these different points control our body’s reactions such as fear and by tapping in just the right place the fear can be eliminated. Dr. Callahan worked for years using traditional psychotherapy approaches seeing little improvement in PTSD clients, which motivated to research non-traditional treatment. “TFT is now in its thirtieth year of development and has simple, non-invasive, drug-free, procedures that are equally effective across gender, age, cultures and species” (Callahan, 2009, para.