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For our patient the best treatment option will be exposure treatment. Exposure treatment is exposing him/her to traumatic experiences in a controlled environment to assist with ways of coping. A treatment based on an extended exposure is usually applied in case of patients suffering on permanent post-traumatic stress and consists of 9-12 one-and-half-hour sessions. It’s primary goal is to teach the patient how to reduce the PTSD symptoms. (Ivanna, S. 2014) The most useful method in CBT is exposure – it gives the patient new piece of evidence, denying his thoughts and beliefs (e.g. thinking about the trauma is not threatening), and the accumulation of evidence leads to the weakening of catastrophic thoughts and interpretations (Reineckie, Clark, 2005).