CBT: A Positive Intervention
The feedback that we receive from veterans is that it’s easier said than done, so to speak, as far as replacing negative thoughts with more accurate thoughts. This can be the challenging portion of CBT because if the veteran doesn’t have the capacity to regulate their thought process, most likely CBT would not be a beneficial intervention. However, the veterans understand that it’s a day-to-day process and their willingness to change brings them closer to their sanity. According to Haluk and Lawrence (2014), efforts to introducing evidence-based practices (EBP) in treatment settings are more successful when members of an organization are “ready to change”(p.73). This is to be true, members of the PTSD group understand that their mental illness