Stimulus Discrimination (Audio)
The Stimulus Discrimination audio exercise is taken from the Psychology Tools For Overcoming PTSD Audio Collection. It is designed to help people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to ‘retrain their brain’ in order to attend automatically to signs of safety.
Stimulus discrimination is a technique that trains the brain to put memories where they belong - in the past. With practice the brain will get better at noticing the differences between then and now – meaning that memories are less likely to be triggered, and helping the listener to feel safer in the present moment. This exercise is best done in combination with a copy of the Psychology Tools Stimulus Discrimination worksheet.

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- English (GB)
- English (US)
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Therapist Guidance
References And Further Reading
- Ehlers, A., Clark, D. M. (2000). A cognitive model of posttraumatic stress disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 38, 319-345.