Intensive prolonged exposure therapy for chronic PTSD patients following multiple trauma and multiple treatment attempts - Hendriks, Lotte; Kleine, Rianne A. de; Broekman, Theo G.; Hendriks, Gert-Jan; Minnen, Agnes van (European journal of psychotraumatology, 2018)
Keywords: (complex) PTSD; (prolonged) exposure; Anxiety; Behavior modification; Clinical; Clinical trials; Cluster analysis; Current trauma-focused treatment (TFT), including prolonged exposure (PE), usually lasts several months with sessions being delivered on a weekly basis. In this study, PE is administered in an accelerated way in chronic PTSD patients with a likely diagnosis of ICD-11 Complex PTSD following multiple interpersonal trauma and a history of multiple treatment attempts. The results of this open study suggest that intensive PE (iPE) can be effective. Although previous treatment attempts were unsuccessful in these patients, 71% showed partial or complete response during iPE. In addition, iPE was found to be safe and dropout rates were very low; exposición (prolongada); intensive treatment; patrones de respuesta; Post traumatic stress disorder; predictores; predictors; response patterns; resultado del tratamiento; School dropouts; Systematic review; TEPT (complejo); tratamiento intensivo; treatment outcome; 反应模式; 强化治疗; 治疗结果; 预测指标; （复杂）PTSD; （延长）暴露; predictors; Current trauma-focused treatment (TFT), including prolonged exposure (PE), usually lasts several months with sessions being delivered on a weekly basis.• In this study, PE is administered in an accelerated way in chronic PTSD patients with a likely diagnosis of ICD-11 Complex PTSD following multiple interpersonal trauma and a history of multiple treatment attempts.• The results of this open study suggest that intensive PE (iPE) can be effective. Although previous treatment attempts were unsuccessful in these patients, 71% showed partial or complete response during iPE. In addition, iPE was found to be safe and dropout rates were very low; intensive treatment; response patterns; (prolonged) exposure; treatment outcome; (complex) PTSD