A clinical psychologist who, with David M. Clark, proposed a cognitive model of persistent post-traumatic stress disorder. Negative interpretations and poorly contextualized autobiographical memory can generate a sense of current threat even though the event is past. The account links continuing symptoms to cognitive and behavioral strategies that prevent those interpretations from changing.[ref]
A cognitive model of posttraumatic stress disorder by Anke Ehlers and David M. Clark. 2000, proposed current-threat mechanism and maintaining strategies
Portrait of Anke Ehlers
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