Clinicians are often worried about their clients dropping out of therapy when they are treating trauma. Are the dropout rates for PTSD therapy worse than for other problems? The research seems to suggest that they are not. A meta-analysis led by investigators at the University of Texas examined dropout from
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, has previously been associated with major forms of cardiovascular disease However, research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association on the 13th of February 2019 shows that PTSD is not an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The authors outlined that comorbid conditions explain the association
A 2019 meta-analysis of 11 studies with a total of 1130 participants showed that CPT outperformed inactive control conditions on PTSD outcome measures at posttreatment and follow-up. The average CPT-treated participant fared better than 89% of those in inactive control conditions at posttreatment and 82% at follow-up. Reference Gordon J.
As many clinicians are aware, PTSD and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) commonly co-occur. As a result, it is important for clinicians to understand how these two disorders effect treatment. In a recent study Bountress et al. (2018) examined this question. Their results are interesting. In their article, Bountress et al.
When a client presents with complex PTSD (cPTSD), they often have high levels of distress, which may be difficult to manage. This has prompted experts to consider how to manage these clients. Guidelines have been developed, however these guidelines have since been questioned regarding their necessity and impact on client
Client presentation and choice of therapy is often a challenge for clinicians. There are often many facets of a client’s experience of PTSD. This includes dissociative experience, multiple traumas, chronicity, severity, experience of tonic immobility and self-blame. All these may be considerations in the choice of therapy. Research suggests that
Practice Makes Perfect Less PTSD Symptoms Engaging your clients in practice outside a session has always been thought an important factor for improvement in many therapies. In a 2017 article in the journal Behavior Therapy (doi:10.1016/j.beth.2017.12.001) this commonsense idea was supported by the data for Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). What
Clients often present with a range of reactions to trauma, and sometimes these don’t meet criteria for a diagnosis. It can be difficult to know what choices to make regarding therapy in these cases. In a December 2013 article in the Journal of Traumatic Stress this question was addressed.
There is a difference between PTSD nightmares, normal nightmares and night terrors. This is important to know because there are different treatment options for each. Nightmares are unpleasant dreams that are usually remembered upon waking. Sleep terrors involve feelings of intense fear, screaming, and thrashing around while still asleep, the
A recently published study has shown that the proposed ICD-11 criteria identified fewer PTSD cases than the ICD-10. This reduction ranged between 47.09% to 57.14%. The highlights Over 97% of ICD-11 PTSD cases met criteria for ICD-10 PTSD criteria. PTSD symptom severity of individuals identified by the ICD-11 criteria was
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