Creative Hopelessness and PTSD: The Quicksand Metaphor

Sonja-Batten

Booz Allen
Department of Veterans Affairs
Yale University
University of Nevada, Reno

Key Points

  1. Creative hopelessness is focused on helping the person to identify the strategies that don’t work.
  2. The problem is that the strategies that they’ve been using aren’t workable.
  3. We default to control strategies, which may work in the short term.

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