{"id":2976,"date":"2011-07-31T15:13:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T21:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2011-07-31T15:18:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T21:18:31","slug":"therapy-tourist-why-talking-doesnt-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2976","title":{"rendered":"‘Therapy Tourism’ & Why Talking Doesn’t Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten years after the September 2011 terrorist attacks, follow-up research shows that much post-trauma therapy is useless and possibly makes things worse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mental health professionals flooded [New York City] in a wave of ‘trauma tourism’ after two planes struck the World Trade Center in 2001 according to the report.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the main psychological benefits were felt by the psychologists rather than the patients, said the study, which said experts greatly over-estimated the number of people who wanted treatment.<\/span><\/div>\n

‘We did a case study in New York and couldn’t really tell if people had been helped by the providers \u2013 but the providers felt great about it,’ Patricia Watson, a co-author of the report who works at the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress <\/a>told The New York Times.<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

‘It makes sense; we know that altruism makes people feel better.’<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the report, therapy centres were set up in the offices of major employers and in fire stations after 9\/11.<\/span><\/p>\n

But for many survivors, the standard procedure at the time of asking them to talk through their experience was not helpful.<\/span><\/p>\n

Researchers believe that the process can sometimes push people deeper into depression and worsen anxiety.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, it will take a generation for this new insight to filter through the “helping professions.”<\/p>\n

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