Distress Tolerance for Trauma: Overview
United States Department of Homeland Security
Key Points
- The purpose of distress tolerance is to replace dangerous behaviors with safer coping strategies and reduce a crisis orientation.
- Distress tolerance includes a broad list of coping skills to make pain more bearable, provide a mindful distraction, and improve the moment.
- A coping plan is designed to provide short-term interventions, needs to be immediately accessible, needs to be practiced when not in crisis, needs to become part of the client’s new everyday routine, and remains an ever-evolving work in progress.
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