38. The first phase of treatment for complex trauma/PTSD focuses on

• ensuring safety, reducing symptoms, and increasing important emotional, social, and psychological competencies.
• the review and reappraisal of trauma memories by involving approaches such as narration in the context of an actual and subjectively experienced safe environment.
• gains in emotional, social, and relational competencies are consolidated to facilitate the transition to greater engagement in relationships, work or education, and community life.
• reorganization and integration of the trauma into autobiographical memory to promote a more positive, compassionate, coherent, and continuous sense of self and relatedness to others.