Patricia A. Resick

Journal Article Eur J Psychotraumatol · December 2025 Trauma is a global issue and public health concern. Political decisions may directly impact rates of trauma exposure, be it individual trauma or mass disaster, and guide how we deal with the consequences of trauma. In this editorial, we warn that the curre ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychometric Evaluation of the Weekly Version of the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5.

Journal Article Assessment · March 12, 2025 The posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Checklist for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5; PCL-5) was designed and validated to track symptoms over the past month (PCL-5-M), yet an untested ad hoc weekly version (PC ... Full text Link to item Cite

Changes in pain and related health outcomes after cognitive processing therapy in an active duty military sample.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · March 5, 2025 This study explored the association between changes in pain and related health outcomes and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms following cognitive processing therapy (CPT) in an active duty military sample. Based on the mutual maintenance model, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive Processing Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Japan: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal Article JAMA Netw Open · February 3, 2025 IMPORTANCE: Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is an evidence-based treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, there is little evidence on the efficacy of CPT in East Asia. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether CPT is effective in treating PTSD ... Full text Link to item Cite

Assessment, Decision, Adaptation, Production, Topical Experts-Integration, Training, and Testing (ADAPT-ITT) Framework to Tailor Evidence-Based Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatment for People With HIV to Enhance Engagement and Adherence: Qualitative Results from a Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.

Journal Article JMIR Form Res · January 16, 2025 BACKGROUND: Individuals with co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and HIV are at high-risk for negative HIV-related outcomes, including low adherence to antiretroviral therapy, faster disease progression, more hospitalizations, and almost twic ... Full text Link to item Cite

An evaluation of the associations among posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and complicated grief in active duty military personnel with traumatic loss.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · December 2024 Between 44% and 87% of active duty service members and veterans who deployed following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks know someone who was killed or seriously injured in combat. Considering the high frequency and known impact of traumatic loss, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predictors of study dropout in cognitive-behavioural therapy with a trauma focus for post-traumatic stress disorder in adults: An individual participant data meta-analysis.

Journal Article BMJ Ment Health · November 13, 2024 BACKGROUND: Available empirical evidence on participant-level factors associated with dropout from psychotherapies for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is both limited and inconclusive. More comprehensive understanding of the various factors that cont ... Full text Link to item Cite

State of the Science of Cognitive Processing Therapy.

Journal Article Behav Ther · November 2024 This state of the science review provides an overview of the history and findings of cognitive processing therapy (CPT), one of the most recommended treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder, acute stress disorder, and comorbid conditions. After an intr ... Full text Link to item Cite

DSM-5 criterion-a-based trauma types in service members and veterans seeking treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · October 2024 OBJECTIVE: In posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the assumption of the equipotentiality of traumas ignores potentially unique contexts and consequences of different traumas. Accordingly, Stein et al. (2012) developed a reliable typing scheme in which as ... Full text Link to item Cite

Exploring the Associations of Emotion Regulation and Trait Resilience with the Efficacy of Cognitive Processing Therapy for Active Duty Military Personnel with PTSD

Journal Article Cognitive Therapy and Research · August 1, 2024 Background: Military personnel who complete cognitive processing therapy (CPT) can still experience residual symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Gaining a deeper understanding of the characteristics that influence response to CPT may increase ... Full text Cite

Traumatic stress: Second edition

Book · July 9, 2024 Traumatic Stress provides a well-written and accessible overview of traumatic stress studies. With its pioneering lead author, this book reviews the full range of clinical disorders that may result from extreme stress, with particular emphasis on posttraum ... Full text Cite

Clinician Concerns About Cognitive Processing Therapy: A Review of the Evidence

Journal Article Cognitive and Behavioral Practice · May 1, 2024 Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is recommended for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but is infrequently delivered. Many clinicians have concerns about CPT that impact usage. Common concerns include (a) CPT's effectiveness in “real-w ... Full text Cite

Heart rate reactivity during trauma recall as a predictor of treatment outcome in cognitive processing therapy for PTSD.

Journal Article Behav Res Ther · May 2024 Emotional engagement when recollecting a trauma memory is considered a key element of effective trauma-focused therapy. Research has shown that reduced physiological reactivity during trauma recall is associated with worse treatment outcomes for posttrauma ... Full text Link to item Cite

A dynamical systems analysis of change in PTSD symptoms, depression symptoms, and suicidal ideation among military personnel during treatment for PTSD.

Journal Article J Affect Disord · April 1, 2024 OBJECTIVE: The connections among posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and suicidal ideation are elusive because of an overreliance on cross-sectional studies. In this secondary analysis of pooled data from three clinical trials of 742 military ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impact and efficiency of treatment across two PTSD clinical trials comparing in-person and telehealth service delivery formats.

Journal Article Psychol Serv · February 2024 The intent of this study is to examine treatment impact and efficiency observed when cognitive behavioral treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are delivered in-person or using telehealth. This study pooled data from 268 veterans enrolled in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Massed cognitive processing therapy for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder: Study design and methodology of a non-inferiority randomized controlled trial.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials · January 2024 BACKGROUND: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is prevalent among military personnel. Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is identified as one of the most effective treatments for PTSD, although smaller effects have been found in military populations. Hig ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effect of PTSD treatment on cardiovascular reactivity during trauma memory recall and correspondence with symptom improvement.

Journal Article Eur J Psychotraumatol · 2024 ABSTRACTBackground: Prior research has shown PTSD treatment leads to reductions in cardiovascular reactivity during trauma recall, but the extent to which such reductions are associated with changes in PTSD symptoms is less clear. Moreover, such relationsh ... Full text Link to item Cite

Long-term effects of dialectical behaviour therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder and cognitive processing therapy 9 months after treatment termination.

Journal Article Eur J Psychotraumatol · 2024 Background: The complexity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms related to childhood abuse (CA) present challenges for effective psychotherapeutic treatment. Consequently, there is great interest in the long-term effectiveness of psychological ... Full text Link to item Cite

The interactions between patient preferences, expectancies, and stigma contribute to posttraumatic stress disorder treatment outcomes.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · December 2023 Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is an effective treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); however, some patients do not improve to the same extent as others. It is important to understand potential factors that can be modified for better patie ... Full text Link to item Cite

Benchmarking secondary outcomes to posttraumatic stress disorder symptom change in response to cognitive processing and written exposure therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article J Anxiety Disord · December 2023 Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has high comorbidity with other psychiatric conditions, including depression, generalized anxiety, and suicidality. Evidence-based treatments (EBTs) for PTSD are effective at reducing PTSD symptoms. However, evidence on ... Full text Link to item Cite

Hyperarousal symptoms linger after successful PTSD treatment in active duty military.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · November 2023 OBJECTIVE: Evidence-based psychotherapies are efficacious at reducing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, but military and veteran samples improve less than civilians. The objective of this secondary analysis of two clinical trials of cognitive ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychometric Properties of the Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview-Short Form Among U.S. Active Duty Military Service Members and Veterans.

Journal Article Assessment · October 2023 We assessed the interrater reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant validity of the Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview-Short Form (SITBI-SF) in a sample of 1,944 active duty service members and veterans seeking services for posttraum ... Full text Link to item Cite

Self-reported sleep problems in active-duty US Army personnel receiving posttraumatic stress disorder treatment in group or individual formats: secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial.

Journal Article J Clin Sleep Med · August 1, 2023 STUDY OBJECTIVES: Sleep disturbances are common in military personnel with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and may persist following treatment. This study examined service members seeking treatment for PTSD, reporting insomnia symptoms, nightmares, ex ... Full text Link to item Cite

Treatment of comorbid sleep disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder in U.S. active duty military personnel: A pilot randomized clinical trial.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · August 2023 Insomnia and nightmares are common in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They are associated with worse psychological and physical health and worse PTSD treatment outcomes. In addition, they are resistant to PTSD treatments, which do not t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effect of cognitive processing therapy on markers of cardiovascular risk in posttraumatic stress disorder patients: A randomized clinical trial.

Journal Article J Psychosom Res · July 2023 OBJECTIVE: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with elevated risk of coronary heart disease (CHD); however, the effects of PTSD treatment on CHD biomarkers is unknown. This study examined whether cognitive processing therapy (CPT) improves 2 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Development and feasibility testing of an integrated PTSD and adherence intervention cognitive processing therapy-life steps (CPT-L) to improve HIV outcomes: Trial protocol.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials Commun · June 2023 Despite high rates of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in persons living with HIV (PLWH) and poor HIV-related health outcomes associated with PTSD, an effective evidence-based treatment for PTSD symptoms in PLWH does not exist. Negative reinforcement ... Full text Link to item Cite

Implicit trauma identity associations in treatment-seeking U.S. military personnel do not predict or change in response to cognitive processing therapy for PTSD.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · May 2023 OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated implicit associations (i.e., associations in memory that are automatically activated and difficult to control consciously) related to trauma and one's self in the context of a clinical trial for active duty service members s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Latent emotion profiles of PTSD and specific emotions predicting differential therapy outcomes in a dismantling study of cognitive processing therapy.

Journal Article J Anxiety Disord · April 2023 Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is theoretically maintained by avoidance of emotions elicited from trauma-related beliefs. Whether PTSD symptom profiles and specific emotions predict treatment response is unknown. This secondary data analysis examined ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impact of morally injurious traumatic event exposure on cognitive processing therapy outcomes among Veterans and service members

Journal Article Journal of Military Veteran and Family Health · April 1, 2023 Introduction: Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is recommended for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and effective across a range of trauma types. However, some have questioned whether CPT is effective for morally injurious traumas, in ... Full text Cite

Prevalence of Fibromyalgia Syndrome in Active-Duty Military Personnel.

Journal Article Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) · March 2023 OBJECTIVE: Previous research with civilian populations has found strong associations between fibromyalgia (FM) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We undertook this study to investigate the prevalence of FM in military service members with and withou ... Full text Link to item Cite

Treatment responder status and time to response as a function of hazardous drinking among active-duty military receiving variable-length cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · March 2023 OBJECTIVE: A common concern is whether individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and hazardous drinking will respond to PTSD treatment or need a higher dose. In a sample of active-duty military, we examined the impact of hazardous drinking on c ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mechanisms of change in posttraumatic headache-related disability: A mediation model.

Journal Article Headache · March 2023 OBJECTIVE: To explore whether the association between change in headache management self-efficacy and posttraumatic headache-related disability is partially mediated by a change in anxiety symptom severity. BACKGROUND: Many cognitive-behavioral therapy tre ... Full text Link to item Cite

Benchmarking quality of life to posttraumatic stress disorder symptom changes in cognitive processing therapy.

Journal Article J Anxiety Disord · January 2023 Although there is ample evidence that PTSD is effectively treated by first-line therapies such as Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), it is less clear to what degree these treatments improve quality of life (QOL), a common presenting concern of treatment-s ... Full text Link to item Cite

A comparison of the CAPS-5 and PCL-5 to assess PTSD in military and veteran treatment-seeking samples.

Journal Article Eur J Psychotraumatol · 2023 Background: This study was an examination of the puzzling finding that people assessed for symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) consistently score higher on the self-report PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) than the Clinician-Administered PTSD S ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mental Health Clinician Practices and Perspectives on Treating Adults with Co-Occurring Posttraumatic Stress and Substance Use Disorders.

Journal Article J Dual Diagn · 2023 OBJECTIVE: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorders (SUD) commonly co-occur and represent a complex, challenging clinical comorbidity. Meta-analytic studies and systematic reviews suggest that trauma-focused treatments are more effi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Alleviates Tinnitus-Related Distress Among Veterans: A Pilot Study.

Journal Article Am J Audiol · December 5, 2022 PURPOSE: Military service personnel are at increased risk for developing tinnitus due to heightened exposure to acoustic trauma. The auditory disorder is the leading service-connected disability among veterans and is highly comorbidly diagnosed with posttr ... Full text Link to item Cite

The impact of prior head injury on outcomes following group and individual cognitive processing therapy among military personnel.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · December 2022 This study examined the impact of a history of head injury (HHI) on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression symptoms in active duty military personnel following group and individual cognitive processing therapy (CPT). Data for these secondary a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Aggression and violent behavior in the military: Self-reported conflict tactics in a sample of service members and veterans seeking treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder

Journal Article Aggression and Violent Behavior · September 1, 2022 Irritability, angry outbursts, and aggression are common among individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although aggression can be a problem among many individuals with PTSD, research suggests that the relationship between PTSD and aggression ... Full text Cite

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Veterans With Comorbid Posttraumatic Headache and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal Article JAMA Neurol · August 1, 2022 IMPORTANCE: Posttraumatic headache is the most disabling complication of mild traumatic brain injury. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms are often comorbid with posttraumatic headache, and there are no established treatments for this comorbidity ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sleep disorder symptoms are associated with greater posttraumatic stress and anger symptoms in US Army service members seeking treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article J Clin Sleep Med · June 1, 2022 STUDY OBJECTIVES: Characterize associations between sleep impairments and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, including anger, in service members seeking treatment for PTSD. METHODS: Ninety-three US Army personnel recruited into a PTSD treatment ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD and Bipolar Disorder Comorbidity: A Case Study

Journal Article Cognitive and Behavioral Practice · May 1, 2022 There is a strong comorbidity between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and bipolar disorder. Unfortunately, there is lack of dissemination regarding modifications of evidence-based therapies for PTSD among individuals with comorbid bipolar I disorder. ... Full text Cite

PTSD symptoms and tinnitus severity: An analysis of veterans with posttraumatic headaches.

Journal Article Health Psychol · March 2022 OBJECTIVE: Tinnitus and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are among the top service-connected disabilities within the Veterans Health Administration. Extant research shows that there is considerable overlap between tinnitus-related distress and PTSD, in ... Full text Link to item Cite

In-office, in-home, and telehealth cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in veterans: a randomized clinical trial.

Journal Article BMC Psychiatry · January 17, 2022 BACKGROUND: Trauma-focused psychotherapies for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military veterans are efficacious, but there are many barriers to receiving treatment. The objective of this study was to determine if cognitive processin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effect of Written Exposure Therapy vs Cognitive Processing Therapy on Increasing Treatment Efficiency Among Military Service Members With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Noninferiority Trial.

Journal Article JAMA Netw Open · January 4, 2022 IMPORTANCE: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs more commonly among military service members than among civilians; however, despite the availability of several evidence-based treatments, there is a need for more efficient evidence-based PTSD treatm ... Full text Link to item Cite

Comparison of Prolonged Exposure vs Cognitive Processing Therapy for Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among US Veterans: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal Article JAMA Netw Open · January 4, 2022 IMPORTANCE: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent and serious mental health problem. Although there are effective psychotherapies for PTSD, there is little information about their comparative effectiveness. OBJECTIVE: To compare the effective ... Full text Link to item Cite

Invariant structural and functional brain regions associated with tinnitus: A meta-analysis.

Journal Article PLoS One · 2022 Tinnitus is a common, functionally disabling condition of often unknown etiology. Neuroimaging research to better understand tinnitus is emerging but remains limited in scope. Voxel-based physiology (VBP) studies detect tinnitus-associated pathophysiology ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive Processing Therapy or Relapse Prevention for comorbid Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Alcohol Use Disorder: A randomized clinical trial.

Journal Article PLoS One · 2022 OBJECTIVE: To compare a Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) treatment (Cognitive Processing Therapy; CPT), an Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) treatment (Relapse Prevention; RP), and assessment-only (AO) for those meeting diagnostic criteria for both PTSD and A ... Full text Link to item Cite

Correction to: Acceptability, Feasibility, and Preliminary Effectiveness of Group Cognitive Processing Therapy with Female Adolescent Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Cambodia.

Journal Article J Child Adolesc Trauma · December 2021 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1007/s40653-021-00405-6.]. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Acceptability, Feasibility, and Preliminary Effectiveness of Group Cognitive Processing Therapy with Female Adolescent Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Cambodia.

Journal Article J Child Adolesc Trauma · December 2021 Research supports the efficacy of cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for reducing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and comorbid conditions among survivors of sexual assault and other traumas. To date, there are no known studies using CPT with adolescen ... Full text Link to item Cite

STRONG STAR and the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD: Shaping the future of combat PTSD and related conditions in military and veteran populations.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials · November 2021 The STRONG STAR Consortium (South Texas Research Organizational Network Guiding Studies on Trauma and Resilience) and the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD are interdisciplinary and multi-institutional research consortia focused on the detection, diagnosis, pre ... Full text Link to item Cite

Persistent posttraumatic headaches and functioning in veterans: Injury type can matter.

Journal Article Headache · October 2021 OBJECTIVE: To characterize the relationship between head trauma types (blast injury, blunt injury, combined blast+blunt injury) with subsequent headache presentations and functioning. BACKGROUND: Posttraumatic headaches (PTHs), the most common sequelae of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Temporal-dimensional examination of the Scale for Suicidal Ideation in a cohort of service members in treatment for PTSD.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · October 2021 OBJECTIVE: Failing to account for temporal dynamics can hinder our understanding of suicidal ideation and the potential mechanisms underlying increased risk for suicide death and suicide attempts associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). To add ... Full text Link to item Cite

The temporal sequence of change in PTSD symptoms and hypothesized mediators in Cognitive Processing Therapy and Written Exposure Therapy for PTSD.

Journal Article Behav Res Ther · September 2021 We examined whether extinction or changes negative trauma-related beliefs occur either prior to or concurrently with changes in posttraumatic stress symptoms among individuals who received either Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) or Written Exposure Thera ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predicting response to Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD: A machine-learning approach.

Journal Article Behav Res Ther · September 2021 Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is an effective treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); however, not every client achieves optimal outcomes. Data were pooled from four randomized trials in which female interpersonal trauma survivors complete ... Full text Link to item Cite

Adapting Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD for People With Disabilities: A Case Study With a U.S. Veteran

Journal Article Cognitive and Behavioral Practice · August 1, 2021 Many veterans receiving treatment for PTSD in the VA health care system are also living with a disability and utilize assistive technologies for communication and/or mobility. While evidence-based treatments for PTSD have been disseminated in VA hospitals ... Full text Cite

The Effects of Interpersonal Support on Treatment Outcomes Using Cognitive Processing Therapy

Journal Article Cognitive Therapy and Research · August 1, 2021 Background: Although there has been research connecting PTSD and social support, there has been little research on effects of treatment, especially in military samples. The current study examined the relationship between these variables over the course of ... Full text Cite

Treatment Outcomes for Adolescents Versus Adults Receiving Cognitive Processing Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder During Community Training.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · August 2021 Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is a gold-standard treatment for adults with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, adolescents may also benefit from CPT, particularly when existing evidence-based treatments for adolescents are unavailable or no ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive Processing Therapy for Substance-Involved Sexual Assault: Does an Account Help or Hinder Recovery?

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · August 2021 Sexual assault (SA) often occurs in the context of substances, which can impair the trauma memory and contribute to negative cognitions like self-blame. Although these factors may affect posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment, outcomes for substanc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Variable-length Cognitive Processing Therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in active duty military: Outcomes and predictors.

Journal Article Behav Res Ther · June 2021 Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is an evidence-based therapy recommended for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, rates of improvement and remission are lower in veterans and active duty military compared to civilians. Although CPT was develop ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Novel Approach to the Assessment of Fidelity to a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for PTSD Using Clinical Worksheets: A Proof of Concept With Cognitive Processing Therapy.

Journal Article Behav Ther · May 2021 Fidelity monitoring is a critical indicator of psychotherapy quality and is central to successful implementation. A major barrier to fidelity in routine care is the lack of feasible, scalable, and valid measurement strategies. A reliable, low-burden fideli ... Full text Link to item Cite

Efficacy of individual and group cognitive processing therapy for military personnel with and without child abuse histories.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · May 2021 Objective: Many clinicians question whether patients with a history of childhood trauma will benefit from trauma-focused treatment. In this secondary analysis, we examined whether reports of childhood abuse moderated the efficacy of cognitive processing th ... Full text Link to item Cite

Interpersonal violence and head injury: The effects on treatment for PTSD.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · March 2021 Objective: This study sought to understand the extent and influence of head injuries (HIs) on recovery from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a sample of treatment-seeking survivors of interpersonal violence, including intimate partner violence (IPV) ... Full text Link to item Cite

The effect of reducing posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms on cardiovascular risk: Design and methodology of a randomized clinical trial.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials · March 2021 Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been associated with accelerated progression of coronary heart disease (CHD). However, the underlying pathophysiological pathway has remained elusive and it is unclear whether there is a direct link between PTSD and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Study design for a randomized clinical trial of cognitive-behavioral therapy for posttraumatic headache.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials Commun · March 2021 Posttraumatic headache (PTH) is a common debilitating condition arising from head injury and is highly prevalent among military service members and veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Diagnosis and treatment for PTH is still evolving, and surprisin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Identifying suicidal subtypes and dynamic indicators of increasing and decreasing suicide risk in active duty military personnel: Study protocol.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials Commun · March 2021 OBJECTIVES: Several recent studies have demonstrated that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and insomnia treatments are associated with significant reductions in suicidal ideation (SI) among service members. However, few investigations have evaluated th ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Impact of Hazardous Drinking Among Active Duty Military With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Does Cognitive Processing Therapy Format Matter?

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · February 2021 This study was a secondary data analysis of clinical trial data collected from 268 active duty U.S. military service members seeking cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at Fort Hood, Texas, related to combat operatio ... Full text Link to item Cite

Estimated Intelligence Moderates Cognitive Processing Therapy Outcome for Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms.

Journal Article Behav Ther · January 2021 Although patient intelligence may be an important determinant of the degree to which individuals may comprehend, comply with, and ultimately benefit from trauma-focused treatment, no prior studies have examined the impact of patient intelligence on benefit ... Full text Link to item Cite

Parameters of Aggressive Behavior in a Treatment-Seeking Sample of Military Personnel: A Secondary Analysis of Three Randomized Controlled Trials of Evidence-Based PTSD Treatments.

Journal Article Behav Ther · January 2021 Aggressive behavior is prevalent among veterans of post-9/11 conflicts who have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, little is known about whether PTSD treatments reduce aggression or the direction of the association between changes in PTSD sympt ... Full text Link to item Cite

Open Trial of an Adaptation of Cognitive Processing Therapy for Message-Based Delivery

Journal Article Technology Mind and Behavior · January 1, 2021 Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) has been found to be effective in individual and group therapy formats for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). However, many people in need of evidence-based PTSD treatment do not receive therapy due to distance from or ... Full text Cite

Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (DBT-PTSD) Compared With Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) in Complex Presentations of PTSD in Women Survivors of Childhood Abuse: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal Article JAMA Psychiatry · December 1, 2020 IMPORTANCE: Childhood abuse significantly increases the risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), often accompanied by symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and other co-occurring mental disorders. Despite the high prevalence, sy ... Full text Link to item Cite

Treatment of comorbid sleep disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder in active duty military: Design and methodology of a randomized clinical trial.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials · December 2020 Many individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also suffer from insomnia and nightmares, which may be symptoms of PTSD or constitute partially independent comorbid disorders. Sleep disturbances are resistant to current treatments for PTSD, and ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Nonrandomized Trial of Prolonged Exposure and Cognitive Processing Therapy for Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a Deployed Setting.

Journal Article Behav Ther · November 2020 For many decades, the U.S. military's general operational guideline has been to limit the use of trauma-focused treatments for combat and operational stress reactions in military service members until they have returned from deployment. Recently, published ... Full text Link to item Cite

Associations between PTSD-Related extinction retention deficits in women and plasma steroids that modulate brain GABAA and NMDA receptor activity.

Journal Article Neurobiol Stress · November 2020 Several studies have demonstrated poor retention of extinction learning among individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Gonadal hormone signaling in brain appears to influence the retention of extinction learning differently in women with and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Reason to doubt the ICHD-3 7-day inclusion criterion for mild TBI-related posttraumatic headache: A nested cohort study.

Journal Article Cephalalgia · October 2020 BACKGROUND: Posttraumatic headache is difficult to define and there is debate about the specificity of the 7-day headache onset criterion in the current definition. There is limited evidence available to guide decision making about this criterion. METHOD: ... Full text Link to item Cite

Intensive, Multi-Couple Group Therapy for PTSD: A Nonrandomized Pilot Study With Military and Veteran Dyads.

Journal Article Behav Ther · September 2020 Cognitive-behavioral conjoint therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (CBCT for PTSD; Monson & Fredman, 2012) is efficacious in improving PTSD symptoms and relationship adjustment among couples with PTSD. However, there is a need for more efficient deliv ... Full text Link to item Cite

It's about time: Examining the role of session timing in Cognitive Processing Therapy in active duty military personnel

Journal Article Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy · September 1, 2020 Current research into Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) examines how and for whom CPT works best, with a focus on understanding treatment outcomes in special populations. Session timing appears to have an effect on CPT outcomes in civilian samples, but th ... Full text Cite

Cognitive Processing Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder via Telehealth: Practical Considerations During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · August 2020 The global outbreak of COVID-19 has required mental health providers to rapidly rethink and adapt how they provide care. Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is a trauma-focused, evidence-based treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder that is effective wh ... Full text Link to item Cite

Weekly Changes in Blame and PTSD Among Active-Duty Military Personnel Receiving Cognitive Processing Therapy.

Journal Article Behav Ther · May 2020 Both negative posttraumatic cognitions and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms decrease over the course of cognitive-behavior therapy for PTSD; however, further research is needed to determine whether cognitive change precedes and predicts sympto ... Full text Link to item Cite

Message Delivery for the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Longitudinal Observational Study of Symptom Trajectories.

Journal Article J Med Internet Res · April 29, 2020 BACKGROUND: Individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) face symptoms that can hinder access to treatment, such as avoidance and guilt. Telemedicine offers a technological solution to increase access to mental health care and overcome barriers to ... Full text Link to item Cite

Changes in anger and aggression after treatment for PTSD in active duty military.

Journal Article J Clin Psychol · March 2020 OBJECTIVE: To examine whether treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) reduces anger and aggression and if changes in PTSD symptoms are associated with changes in anger and aggression. METHOD: Active duty service members (n = 374) seeking PTSD treatme ... Full text Link to item Cite

Study design comparing written exposure therapy to cognitive processing therapy for PTSD among military service members: A noninferiority trial.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials Commun · March 2020 Although there are a number of effective treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), there is a need to develop more efficient evidence-based PTSD treatments to address barriers to seeking and receiving treatment. Written exposure therapy (WET) is ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predictors of Treatment Outcome in Group or Individual Cognitive Processing Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Active Duty Military.

Journal Article Cognit Ther Res · February 27, 2020 BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to examine demographic, psychological, military, and deployment variables that might predict posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom improvement in a sample of active duty service members who received either g ... Full text Link to item Cite

Baseline Cognitive Performance and Treatment Outcomes From Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Naturalistic Study.

Journal Article J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci · 2020 OBJECTIVE: Approximately 5%-20% of U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and another 11%-23% have traumatic brain injury (TBI). Cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBTs) are empirically validated treatment s ... Full text Link to item Cite

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Patterns and predictors of change in trauma-focused treatments for war-related posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · November 2019 OBJECTIVE: We evaluated patterns and predictors of change from three efficacy trials of trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral treatments (TF-CBT) among service members (N = 702; mean age = 32.88; 89.4% male; 79.8% non-Hispanic/Latino). Rates of clinically si ... Full text Link to item Cite

Depression Suppresses Treatment Response for Traumatic Loss-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Active Duty Military Personnel.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · October 2019 There are multiple well-established evidence-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, recent clinical trials have shown that combat-related PTSD in military populations is less responsive to evidence-based treatments than PTSD in ... Full text Link to item Cite

A resting-state network comparison of combat-related PTSD with combat-exposed and civilian controls.

Journal Article Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci · September 30, 2019 Resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) is an emerging means of understanding the neurobiology of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, most rsFC studies to date have limited focus to cognitively related intrinsic connectivity ... Full text Link to item Cite

Testing a variable-length Cognitive Processing Therapy intervention for posttraumatic stress disorder in active duty military: Design and methodology of a clinical trial.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials Commun · September 2019 Combat-related trauma exposures have been associated with increased risk for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and comorbid mental health conditions. Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a 12-session manualized cognitive-behavioral therapy that has eme ... Full text Link to item Cite

Conceptualizing comorbid PTSD and depression among treatment-seeking, active duty military service members.

Journal Article J Affect Disord · September 1, 2019 BACKGROUND: Among active duty service members and veterans with PTSD, depression is the most commonly diagnosed comorbid psychiatric condition. More research is warranted to investigate the relationship between PTSD and depression to improve treatment appr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Therapist stuck points during training in cognitive processing therapy: Changes over time and associations with training outcomes

Journal Article Professional Psychology: Research and Practice · August 1, 2019 Many practitioners have doubts or concerns about evidence-based treatments. The objective of this study was to evaluate such doubts and concerns, or therapist stuck points, during training in cognitive processing therapy (CPT). Data were collected from 57 ... Full text Cite

Predictors of attendance and dropout in three randomized controlled trials of PTSD treatment for active duty service members.

Journal Article Behav Res Ther · July 2019 Dropout from first-line posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatments is a significant problem. We reported rates and predictors of attendance and dropout in three clinical trials of evidence-based PTSD treatments in military service members (N = 557). S ... Full text Link to item Cite

Corrigendum to "Design of VA Cooperative Study #591: CERV-PTSD, Comparative Effectiveness Research in Veterans with PTSD" [Contemp. Clin. Trials 41 (2015) 75-84].

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials · May 2019 Full text Link to item Cite

Common Data Elements in the Assessment of Military-Related PTSD Research Applied in the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD.

Journal Article Mil Med · May 1, 2019 INTRODUCTION: Driven by the need to share data, sufficiently power studies, and allow for cross-study comparisons of medical and psychiatric diseases, the President's National Research Action Plan issued in 2013 called for the use of state-of-the-art commo ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Impact of Military Status on Cognitive Processing Therapy Outcomes in the Community.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · April 2019 Military-affiliated individuals (i.e., active duty personnel and veterans) exhibit high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although existing evidence-based treatments for PTSD, such as cognitive processing therapy (CPT), have demonstrated effec ... Full text Link to item Cite

Examination of Treatment Effects on Hazardous Drinking Among Service Members With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · April 2019 Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disorder are frequently comorbid and present significant treatment challenges. Unfortunately, since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, the rates of PTSD and hazardous drinkin ... Full text Link to item Cite

THE EVOLUTION OF COGNITIVE PROCESSING THERAPY FOR POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

Conference AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY · April 1, 2019 Link to item Cite

Residual symptoms following empirically supported treatment for PTSD.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · February 2019 OBJECTIVE: Although there are several evidence-based treatments that are effective in mitigating the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), rates of nonresponse to treatment as well as treatment dropout remain high. In order to determine which s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Using a Learning Collaborative Model to Disseminate Cognitive Processing Therapy to Community-Based Agencies.

Journal Article Behav Ther · January 2019 Although effective treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder exist, their use in community settings is disappointingly low. Training alone does not necessarily lead to adoption. To address this problem, we trained community clinicians in cognitive proce ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pilot Trial of a Combined Cognitive Processing Therapy and Smoking Cessation Treatment.

Journal Article J Addict Med · 2019 OBJECTIVE/BACKGROUND: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and smoking are often comorbid. Combining PTSD and smoking cessation treatments could increase access to each treatment and could provide improved rates of smoking cessation through reductions in P ... Full text Link to item Cite

Salience Network Disruption in U.S. Army Soldiers With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Journal Article Chronic Stress (Thousand Oaks) · 2019 BACKGROUND: Better understanding of the neurobiology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be critical to developing novel, effective therapeutics. Here, we conducted a data-driven investigation using a well-established, graph-based topological measu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Peritraumatic and Posttraumatic Emotions Questionnaires Among Active Duty Military Personnel With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · December 2018 The Peritraumatic Emotions Questionnaire (Peri-TEQ) and Posttraumatic Emotions Questionnaire (Post-TEQ) are self-report measures of emotions experienced during and after a traumatic event, respectively. The factor structure and psychometric properties of t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Design of a clinical effectiveness trial of in-home cognitive processing therapy for combat-related PTSD.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials · October 2018 Approximately 14% of military personnel and veterans who have deployed to the combat theater are at risk for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The treatment of combat-related PTSD in active duty service members and veterans is challengin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Long-term treatment gains of a brief exposure-based treatment for PTSD.

Journal Article Depress Anxiety · October 2018 BACKGROUND: Written exposure therapy (WET) is a 5-session PTSD treatment that may address barriers in treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) given its brevity and tolerability. A recent study found outcomes for WET were non-inferior to outcomes ... Full text Link to item Cite

Homework Completion, Patient Characteristics, and Symptom Change in Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD.

Journal Article Behav Ther · September 2018 We evaluated the impact of homework completion on change in PTSD symptoms in the context of two randomized controlled trials of Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD (CPT). Female participants (n = 140) diagnosed with PTSD attended at least one CPT session ... Full text Link to item Cite

PTSD in women is associated with a block in conversion of progesterone to the GABAergic neurosteroids allopregnanolone and pregnanolone measured in plasma.

Journal Article Psychoneuroendocrinology · July 2018 There is a need to identify new and more effective treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Allopregnanolone and its stereoisomer pregnanolone (together termed ALLO) are metabolites of progesterone that positively and allosterically modulate GA ... Full text Link to item Cite

A relative weights comparison of trauma-related shame and guilt as predictors of DSM-5 posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity among US veterans and military members.

Journal Article Br J Clin Psychol · June 2018 OBJECTIVES: Veterans and military service members have increased risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and consequent problems with health, psychosocial functioning, and quality of life. In this population and others, shame and guilt have emerged ... Full text Link to item Cite

In rape trauma PTSD, patient characteristics indicate which trauma-focused treatment they are most likely to complete.

Journal Article Depress Anxiety · April 2018 BACKGROUND: Dropout rates for effective therapies for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be high, especially in practice settings. Although clinicians have intuitions regarding what treatment patients may complete, there are few systematic data to dr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Distinct Trauma Types in Military Service Members Seeking Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · April 2018 We examined the frequency of trauma types reported in a cohort of service members seeking treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and compared symptom profiles between types. In this observational study, 999 service members (9.2% women; Mage = 3 ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Brief Exposure-Based Treatment vs Cognitive Processing Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Noninferiority Clinical Trial.

Journal Article JAMA Psychiatry · March 1, 2018 IMPORTANCE: Written exposure therapy (WET), a 5-session intervention, has been shown to efficaciously treat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, this treatment has not yet been directly compared with a first-line PTSD treatment such as cognitive ... Full text Link to item Cite

Disorder- and Treatment-Specific Therapeutic Competence Scales for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Intervention: Development and Psychometric Properties.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · December 2017 Although the assessment of therapeutic competence in psychotherapy research is essential for examining its possible associations with treatment outcomes, it is often neglected due to high costs and a lack of valid instruments. This study aimed to develop t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Adherence Rating Scale for Cognitive Processing Therapy - Cognitive Only: Analysis of Psychometric Properties.

Journal Article Behav Cogn Psychother · November 2017 BACKGROUND: The assessment of therapeutic adherence is essential for accurately interpreting treatment outcomes in psychotherapy research. However, such assessments are often neglected. AIMS: To fill this gap, we aimed to develop and test a scale that asse ... Full text Link to item Cite

Trauma cognitions are related to symptoms up to 10 years after cognitive behavioral treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · November 2017 OBJECTIVES: This study examined (a) relationships between trauma-related cognitions and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms from pretreatment through a long-term period after cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for PTSD and (b) whether these relat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Correcting Misperceptions About Cognitive Processing Therapy to Treat Moral Injury: A Response to Gray and Colleagues (this issue)

Journal Article Cognitive and Behavioral Practice · November 1, 2017 We respond to the commentary by Gray, Nash, and Litz (this issue) regarding the use of cognitive processing therapy (CPT) to address moral injury as described in our previous publication (Wachen et al., 2016). In their commentary, Gray et al. posit that CP ... Full text Cite

Primum Non Nocere (First Do No Harm): Symptom Worsening and Improvement in Female Assault Victims After Prolonged Exposure for PTSD.

Journal Article Focus (Am Psychiatr Publ) · October 2017 (Reprinted with permission from Depression and Anxiety 2014; 31:412-419). ... Full text Link to item Cite

How should we treat post-traumatic stress disorder in active military personnel?

Journal Article Expert Rev Neurother · July 2017 Full text Link to item Cite

Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of cognitive processing therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder among Japanese patients: the Safety, Power, Intimacy, Esteem, Trust (SPINET) study.

Journal Article BMJ Open · June 30, 2017 INTRODUCTION: Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is widely regarded as a safe and effective first-line treatment for individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); however, no comparative studies have been conducted to examine the treatment outcom ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clarification of Clinical Trial Registration and Reported Study Outcomes.

Journal Article JAMA Psychiatry · June 1, 2017 Full text Link to item Cite

Missing Second Clinical Trial Registration Identifier and Clarification of Outcome Measures

Journal Article JAMA Psychiatry · June 1, 2017 Full text Cite

Cognitive factors in the development, maintenance, and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article Curr Opin Psychol · April 2017 Cognitive content and processes are central to theories of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this paper, we highlight recent findings on cognitive factors in PTSD. Evidence for the role of negative post-traumatic cognitions in PTSD has continued to ... Full text Link to item Cite

High rates of PTSD treatment dropout: A possible red herring?

Journal Article J Anxiety Disord · April 2017 Few studies have examined symptom change among dropouts from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment. However, dropout is widely considered a negative event needing to be addressed. The present study investigated PTSD and depression symptom change i ... Full text Link to item Cite

Positive Association Between Nightmares and Heart Rate Response to Loud Tones: Relationship to Parasympathetic Dysfunction in PTSD Nightmares.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · April 2017 Seventy-three women with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from rape or physical assault participated in a loud-tone procedure, while skin conductance (SC), heart rate, and electromyogram responses were recorded. Pearson correlations were exam ... Full text Link to item Cite

Help-Seeking Behavior in Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Toward an Integrated Behavioral Model of Individual Factors.

Journal Article Violence Vict · April 1, 2017 This study examined individual behavioral predictors of help-seeking using the frameworks of the Andersen model and the theory of planned behavior in a sample of help-seeking female survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). In-person interviews were co ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive Processing Therapy for Spanish-speaking Latinos: A Formative Study of a Model-Driven Cultural Adaptation of the Manual to Enhance Implementation in a Usual Care Setting.

Journal Article J Clin Psychol · March 2017 OBJECTIVE: As part of a larger implementation trial for cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a community health center, we used formative evaluation to assess relations between iterative cultural adaption (for Span ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effect of Group vs Individual Cognitive Processing Therapy in Active-Duty Military Seeking Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal Article JAMA Psychiatry · January 1, 2017 IMPORTANCE: Cognitive processing therapy (CPT), an evidence-based treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), has not been tested as an individual treatment among active-duty military. Group CPT may be an efficient way to deliver treatment. OBJECTI ... Full text Link to item Cite

Longitudinal Associations between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Severity and Personality Disorder Features among Female Rape Survivors.

Journal Article Front Psychiatry · 2017 This study evaluated how change in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms was associated with residualized change in comorbid personality disorder (PD) features and vice versa over the course of 5-10 years. The sample was comprised of 79 female rape ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychotherapy interventions for comorbid sleep disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder

Chapter · January 1, 2017 Sleep difficulties, including problems such as falling and staying asleep and recurring disturbing dreams, are some of the most frequently reported symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although efficacious treatments for PTSD, such as prolonge ... Full text Cite

Does timing matter? Examining the impact of session timing on outcome.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · December 2016 OBJECTIVE: First-line treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are often implemented twice per week in efficacy trials. However, there is considerable variability in the frequency of treatment sessions (e.g., once per week or twice per week) in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychometric analysis of the PTSD Checklist-5 (PCL-5) among treatment-seeking military service members.

Journal Article Psychol Assess · November 2016 The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist (PCL-5; Weathers et al., 2013) was recently revised to reflect the changed diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Diso ... Full text Link to item Cite

Residual sleep disturbances following PTSD treatment in active duty military personnel.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · November 2016 OBJECTIVE: Sleep disturbances, including nightmares and insomnia, are frequently reported symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Insomnia is one of the most common symptoms to persist after evidence-based PTSD treatment. The purpose of this stud ... Full text Link to item Cite

Depression and dissociation as predictors of physical health symptoms among female rape survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · September 2016 OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relative contributions of depression and dissociation, as well as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), to physical health symptoms and to examine the relationships among somatic symptoms, PTSD, depression, and dissociation in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prepulse inhibition deficits in women with PTSD.

Journal Article Psychophysiology · September 2016 Prepulse inhibition (PPI) is an automatic and preattentive process, whereby a weak stimulus attenuates responding to a sudden and intense startle stimulus. PPI is a measure of sensorimotor filtering, which is conceptualized as a mechanism that facilitates ... Full text Link to item Cite

Leveraging routine clinical materials to assess fidelity to an evidence-based psychotherapy

Conference IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE · June 23, 2016 Link to item Cite

EVALUATING POTENTIAL IATROGENIC SUICIDE RISK IN TRAUMA-FOCUSED GROUP COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR THE TREATMENT OF PTSD IN ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY PERSONNEL.

Journal Article Depress Anxiety · June 2016 OBJECTIVE: To determine whether group cognitive processing therapy-cognitive only version (CPT-C) is associated with iatrogenic suicide risk in a sample of active duty US Army personnel diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Possible iatrogen ... Full text Link to item Cite

Professional versus personal resource utilization in survivors of intimate partner violence.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · May 2016 Although many women are affected by intimate partner violence (IPV) across the life span, rates of help seeking for IPV-related concerns are low. The current project examined predictors of personal and professional resource use in a sample of female IPV su ... Full text Link to item Cite

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT TREATMENT GUIDELINES FOR COMPLEX PTSD IN ADULTS.

Journal Article Depress Anxiety · May 2016 According to current treatment guidelines for Complex PTSD (cPTSD), psychotherapy for adults with cPTSD should start with a "stabilization phase." This phase, focusing on teaching self-regulation strategies, was designed to ensure that an individual would ... Full text Link to item Cite

Brief treatment for PTSD: A non-inferiority trial.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials · May 2016 Prior studies have identified several psychosocial treatment approaches as effective for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Unfortunately, a substantial minority of individuals who receive these treatments drop out prematurely. Moreover, a considerable ... Full text Link to item Cite

Extinction retention and the menstrual cycle: Different associations for women with posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article J Abnorm Psychol · April 2016 The propensity to acquire and retain conditioned fear responses may contribute to the risk of developing and maintaining posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following a traumatic event. There is growing evidence that the gonadal hormones estrogen and prog ... Full text Link to item Cite

Qualitative examination of cognitive change during PTSD treatment for active duty service members.

Journal Article Behav Res Ther · April 2016 The current study investigated changes in service members' cognitions over the course of Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Sixty-three active duty service members with PTSD were drawn from 2 randomized controlled ... Full text Link to item Cite

[Trauma-focused psychotherapies: what are the commonalities?].

Journal Article Praxis (Bern 1994) · March 30, 2016 A number of evidence-based psychotherapeutic approaches for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are available. They differ in various ways, however, they also have a number of commonalities. Given this situation, clinicians may wonder whi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Regional cerebral glucose metabolism differentiates danger- and non-danger-based traumas in post-traumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci · February 2016 Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is presumably the result of life threats and conditioned fear. However, the neurobiology of fear fails to explain the impact of traumas that do not entail threats. Neuronal function, assessed as glucose metabolism with ... Full text Link to item Cite

Symptom exacerbations in trauma-focused treatments: Associations with treatment outcome and non-completion.

Journal Article Behav Res Ther · February 2016 Trauma-focused treatments are underutilized, partially due to clinician concerns that they will cause symptom exacerbation or dropout. We examined a sample of women undergoing Prolonged Exposure (PE), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and a version of CP ... Full text Link to item Cite

Time course of treatment dropout in cognitive-behavioral therapies for posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · January 2016 A substantial minority of people drop out of cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBTs) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). There has been considerable research investigating who drops out of PTSD treatment; however, the question of when dropout occurs ha ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predicting three types of dissociation in female survivors of intimate partner violence.

Journal Article J Trauma Dissociation · 2016 Previous research suggests that studying the effect of dissociation is particularly important in survivors of intimate partner violence because of the risk of revictimization. The current study investigated demographic variables, child and current abuse ch ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pilot Cases of Combined Cognitive Processing Therapy and Smoking Cessation for Smokers With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Journal Article Behav Ther · January 2016 Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and smoking are often comorbid, and both problems are in need of improved access to evidence-based treatment. The combined approach could address two high-priority problems and increase patient access to both treatments ... Full text Link to item Cite

A randomized clinical trial of group cognitive processing therapy compared with group present-centered therapy for PTSD among active duty military personnel.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · December 2015 OBJECTIVE: To determine whether group therapy improves symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this randomized clinical trial compared efficacy of group cognitive processing therapy (cognitive only version; CPT-C) with group present-centered ther ... Full text Link to item Cite

TELEMEDICINE VERSUS IN-PERSON DELIVERY OF COGNITIVE PROCESSING THERAPY FOR WOMEN WITH POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER: A RANDOMIZED NONINFERIORITY TRIAL.

Journal Article Depress Anxiety · November 2015 BACKGROUND: This study examined the effectiveness of telemedicine to provide psychotherapy to women with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who might be unable to access treatment. Objectives were to compare clinical and process outcomes of PTSD treatmen ... Full text Link to item Cite

Trauma, comorbidity, and mortality following diagnoses of severe stress and adjustment disorders: a nationwide cohort study.

Journal Article Am J Epidemiol · September 1, 2015 Longitudinal outcomes following stress or trauma diagnoses are receiving attention, yet population-based studies are few. The aims of the present cohort study were to examine the cumulative incidence of traumatic events and psychiatric diagnoses following ... Full text Link to item Cite

African American and European American veterans' perspectives on receiving mental health treatment.

Journal Article Psychol Serv · August 2015 Little is known about client attitudes, especially veterans', toward the types of structured interventions that are increasingly being offered in public sector and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs mental health clinics, nor is the possible impact these ... Full text Link to item Cite

Positive Correlation Between Nightmares and Heart Rate Response to Loud Tones Supports Parasympathetic Dysfunction in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Conference BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY · May 1, 2015 Link to item Cite

Design of VA Cooperative Study #591: CERV-PTSD, comparative effectiveness research in veterans with PTSD.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials · March 2015 CERV-PTSD is a randomized controlled trial of two of the most effective treatments for PTSD, Prolonged Exposure (PE) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). Despite solid evidence that both treatments are effective, there is limited evidence about their ef ... Full text Link to item Cite

Rape survivors' trauma-related beliefs before and after Cognitive processing therapy: associations with PTSD and depression symptoms.

Journal Article Behav Res Ther · March 2015 This study examined whether cognitive distortions (i.e., assimilated and overaccommodated thoughts) and realistic (i.e., accommodated) thoughts assessed from impact statements written 5-10 years after completing cognitive processing therapy (CPT) accuratel ... Full text Link to item Cite

Accuracy of an intimate partner violence screening tool for female VHA patients: a replication and extension.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · February 2015 The 4-item Hurt/Insult/Threaten/Scream (HITS) tool accurately detects past-year intimate partner violence (IPV) among female Veterans Health Administration (VHA) patients; however, it lacks a sexual IPV item. This study evaluated the accuracy of an extende ... Full text Link to item Cite

Validity of reaction to severe stress and adjustment disorder diagnoses in the Danish Psychiatric Central Research Registry.

Journal Article Clin Epidemiol · 2015 AIMS: To assess the validity of reaction to severe stress and adjustment disorder diagnoses registered in the Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register (DPCRR), to examine the documentation of stressful and traumatic events in the medical records, and t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychotherapies for PTSD: what do they have in common?

Journal Article Eur J Psychotraumatol · 2015 Over the past three decades, research and clinical practice related to the field of traumatic stress have developed tremendously. In parallel with the steady accumulation of basic knowledge, therapeutic approaches have been developed to treat people suffer ... Full text Link to item Cite

Implementing Cognitive Processing Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With Active Duty U.S. Military Personnel: Special Considerations and Case Examples

Journal Article Cognitive and Behavioral Practice · December 31, 2014 Numerous studies and reports document the prevalence of combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military personnel returning from deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. The Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense recommend cog ... Full text Cite

Injury dimensions in female victims of intimate partner violence: Expanding the examination of associations with symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder

Journal Article Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy · November 1, 2014 This study examined the types, frequency, and location of acute and residual injuries (violence-related marks or scars) of 345 victims of moderate-severe intimate partner violence (IPV). Acute facial injuries were common with facial bruising reported by 83 ... Full text Cite

Data mining in psychological treatment research: a primer on classification and regression trees.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · October 2014 Data mining of treatment study results can reveal unforeseen but critical insights, such as who receives the most benefit from treatment and under what circumstances. The usefulness and legitimacy of exploratory data analysis have received relatively littl ... Full text Link to item Cite

The impact of childhood abuse among women with assault-related PTSD receiving short-term cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · October 2014 This study examined the effect of child sexual or physical abuse on brief cognitive-behavioral therapy treatments with adults with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We analyzed secondary data from two randomized controlled trials (Resick, Nishith, Weav ... Full text Link to item Cite

Associations between functioning and PTSD symptom clusters in a dismantling trial of cognitive processing therapy in female interpersonal violence survivors.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · October 2014 This study conducted secondary analyses of a published trial and sought to determine if different domains of psychosocial functioning (e.g., daily living, work, nonfamily relationships) improved following trauma-focused treatment for posttraumatic stress d ... Full text Link to item Cite

Severe stress and adjustment disorder diagnoses in the population of Denmark.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · June 2014 We created a registry of Danish-born citizens of Denmark with incident International Classification of Diseases (10th ed.; ICD-10) severe stress and adjustment disorder diagnoses between 1995 and 2011. A unique personal identifier was used to retrieve and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Treatment-related reductions in PTSD and changes in physical health symptoms in women.

Journal Article J Behav Med · June 2014 This study examined the relationship between change in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms over the course of PTSD treatment and the association with changes in general physical health symptoms. Both positive health habits (e.g., exercise) and ne ... Full text Link to item Cite

Developmentally adapted cognitive processing therapy for adolescents suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder after childhood sexual or physical abuse: a pilot study.

Journal Article Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev · June 2014 Although childhood sexual abuse and childhood physical abuse (CSA and CPA) have severe psychopathological consequences, there is little evidence supporting psychotherapeutic interventions for adolescents who have experienced CSA or CPA. To provide a treatm ... Full text Link to item Cite

Primum non nocere (first do no harm): symptom worsening and improvement in female assault victims after prolonged exposure for PTSD.

Journal Article Depress Anxiety · May 2014 BACKGROUND: Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy is an efficacious treatment for PTSD; despite this, many clinicians do not utilize it due to concerns it could cause patient decompensation. METHOD: Data were pooled from four published well-controlled studies of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder delivered to rural veterans via telemental health: a randomized noninferiority clinical trial.

Journal Article J Clin Psychiatry · May 2014 OBJECTIVE: To compare clinical and process outcomes of cognitive processing therapy-cognitive only version (CPT-C) delivered via videoteleconferencing (VTC) to in-person in a rural, ethnically diverse sample of veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder ( ... Full text Link to item Cite

Changes in Anger in Relationship to Responsivity to PTSD Treatment.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · January 2014 This study examined the clinical course of different dimensions of anger and their relationship to change in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a sample of 139 female survivors of interpersonal violence suffering from PTSD. Specifically, this study ev ... Full text Link to item Cite

Long-term functional outcomes of women receiving cognitive processing therapy and prolonged exposure.

Journal Article Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy · 2014 Full text Cite

Posttraumatic stress disorder

Chapter · January 1, 2014 Currently, under the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is classified within the new category of trauma and stressor-related disorders. PTSD frequently presents with fear and anxiety and most ... Full text Cite

Change in sleep symptoms across Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure: a longitudinal perspective.

Journal Article Behav Res Ther · December 2013 Sleep disturbance is a core component in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although cognitive-behavioral treatments for PTSD reduce the severity of sleep symptoms, they do not lead to complete remission. The present study examines the impact of Cogniti ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical utility of an intimate partner violence screening tool for female VHA patients.

Journal Article J Gen Intern Med · October 2013 OBJECTIVES: Female Veterans are at high risk for physical, sexual, and psychological forms of intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization. This study evaluated the accuracy of a brief IPV victimization screening tool for use with female Veterans Health A ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predictors of suicidal ideation in a gender-stratified sample of OEF/OIF veterans.

Journal Article Suicide Life Threat Behav · October 2013 There is a growing concern about suicide among Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) veterans. We examined the role of postdeployment mental health in associations between deployment stressors and postdeployment suicidal ideati ... Full text Link to item Cite

Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder reduces suicidal ideation.

Journal Article Depress Anxiety · October 2013 BACKGROUND: Suicide is a significant public health problem. Although various studies have found evidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a risk factor for suicidal behaviors, no study has examined whether or not PTSD treatment decreases suicidal ... Full text Link to item Cite

Longitudinal course of anxiety sensitivity and PTSD symptoms in cognitive-behavioral therapies for PTSD.

Journal Article J Anxiety Disord · October 2013 Anxiety sensitivity (AS) has been conceptualized as trait-like vulnerability and maintenance factor for PTSD. Although recent literature has demonstrated its malleability during treatment, few have examined its influence on and effect from PTSD treatment. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Gender differences among veterans deployed in support of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Journal Article J Gen Intern Med · July 2013 BACKGROUND: The changing scope of women's roles in combat operations has led to growing interest in women's deployment experiences and post-deployment adjustment. OBJECTIVES: To quantify the gender-specific frequency of deployment stressors, including sexu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predictors of mental health care use among male and female veterans deployed in support of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Journal Article Psychol Serv · May 2013 What factors predict whether Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) veterans who need mental health care receive that care? The present research examined factors associated with a need for care, sociodemographic characteristics, d ... Full text Link to item Cite

Gender differences in posttraumatic stress symptoms among OEF/OIF veterans: an item response theory analysis.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · April 2013 Establishing whether men and women tend to express different symptoms of posttraumatic stress in reaction to trauma is important for both etiological research and the design of assessment instruments. Use of item response theory (IRT) can reveal how sympto ... Full text Link to item Cite

"Strength at Home" Group Intervention for Military Populations Engaging in Intimate Partner Violence: Pilot Findings

Journal Article Journal of Family Violence · April 1, 2013 In this brief report, we present information on the Strength at Home intervention to treat male active duty or military veteran perpetrators of intimate partner violence (IPV) as well as preliminary pilot study findings. Strength at Home is a 12-session co ... Full text Cite

Differential Associations Between Partner Violence and Physical Health Symptoms Among Caucasian and African American Help-Seeking Women.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · March 1, 2013 The relationship between partner violence and physical health symptoms is well-established. Although some researchers have theorized that the physical health effects of partner violence may be worse for ethnic minority women, there is little research addre ... Full text Link to item Cite

Erratum: Differential associations between partner violence and physical health symptoms among caucasian and African American help-seeking women (Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy (2011) DOI: 10.1037/a0025912)

Journal Article Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy · March 1, 2013 Full text Cite

Predictors of intimate partner violence revictimization: the relative impact of distinct PTSD symptoms, dissociation, and coping strategies.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · February 2013 Psychological distress and coping strategies following intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization may impact survivors' risk for future IPV. The current study prospectively examined the impact of distinct posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom clu ... Full text Link to item Cite

The impact of childhood maltreatment on PTSD symptoms among female survivors of intimate partner violence.

Journal Article Violence Vict · 2013 OBJECTIVE: Intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors often report histories of childhood maltreatment, yet the unique contributions of childhood maltreatment on IPV survivors' distinct posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms remain inadequately under ... Full text Link to item Cite

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Getting out of our own way.

Journal Article Behav Ther · December 2012 This paper, a follow-up from a 2009 panel discussion at ABCT's Annual Convention, focuses on the choices that women make (or don't make) that can affect their careers. Women are particularly prone to feeling guilty about their choices, and while a few deca ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mechanisms of Change in Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD: Preliminary Evidence for the Differential Effects of Hopelessness and Habituation.

Journal Article Cognit Ther Res · December 2012 The present study examined two potential mechanisms of change, hopelessness cognitions and habituation, in a randomized controlled trial of cognitive processing therapy (CPT) and prolonged exposure therapy (PE) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Par ... Full text Link to item Cite

Changes in posttraumatic stress disorder and depressive symptoms during cognitive processing therapy: evidence for concurrent change.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · December 2012 OBJECTIVE: Trauma-focused psychotherapies reduce both posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and co-occurring depression. However, little is known about the relationship between changes in PTSD and depression during treatment. This study examined the associa ... Full text Link to item Cite

Trajectories of response to treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article Behav Ther · December 2012 Research on the predictors of response to cognitive-behavioral treatments for PTSD has often produced inconsistent or ambiguous results. We argue this is in part due to the use of statistical techniques that explore relationships among the entire sample of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Empirically Supported Psychological Treatments: Cognitive Processing Therapy

Chapter · November 21, 2012 Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) has been recognized by the Institute of Medicine (2007) as one of the most effective treatments for PTSD. This chapter provides a brief overview of the CPT session content, the underlying mechanisms of the therapy, a revi ... Full text Cite

A scheme for categorizing traumatic military events.

Journal Article Behav Modif · November 2012 A common assumption among clinicians and researchers is that war trauma primarily involves fear-based reactions to life-threatening situations. However, the authors believe that there are multiple types of trauma in the military context, each with unique p ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive behavioural treatments have long-term benefits in female rape survivors with post-traumatic stress disorder

Journal Article Evidence Based Mental Health · November 1, 2012 Full text Cite

Treatment improves symptoms shared by PTSD and disordered eating.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · October 2012 Eating disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are debilitating conditions that frequently co-occur. Although the two disorders have different clinical presentations, they share associated features, including cognitive disturbances, emotion dysr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Posttraumatic maladaptive beliefs scale: evolution of the personal beliefs and reactions scale.

Journal Article Assessment · September 2012 The posttraumatic maladaptive beliefs scale (PMBS) was developed to measure maladaptive beliefs about current life circumstances that may occur following trauma exposure. This scale assesses maladaptive beliefs within three domains: (a) threat of harm, (b) ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effect of cognitive-behavioral couple therapy for PTSD: a randomized controlled trial.

Journal Article JAMA · August 15, 2012 CONTEXT: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent condition associated with intimate relationship problems, and intimate relationship factors have been shown to affect individual PTSD treatment outcomes. OBJECTIVE: To compare cognitive-behaviora ... Full text Link to item Cite

The impact of dissociation on PTSD treatment with cognitive processing therapy.

Journal Article Depress Anxiety · August 2012 BACKGROUND: This secondary analysis of data from a randomized controlled trial of cognitive processing therapy (CPT) and its constituent components investigated whether dissociation decreased over the course of treatment primarily targeting symptoms of pos ... Full text Link to item Cite

The dissociative subtype of PTSD: a replication and extension.

Journal Article Depress Anxiety · August 2012 BACKGROUND: The nature of the relationship between dissociation and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has clinical and nosological importance. The aim of this study was to evaluate the evidence for a dissociative subtype of PTSD in two independent sampl ... Full text Link to item Cite

Advocacy through science: Reply to comments on Resick et al. (2012)

Journal Article Journal of Traumatic Stress · June 1, 2012 The 4 comments on the review by Resick et al. (2012) of the complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) literature highlight important theoretical and conceptual questions about the nature and utility of CPTSD and echo the very questions that motivated t ... Full text Cite

Associations between Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index factors and health outcomes in women with posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article Sleep Med · June 2012 OBJECTIVE: The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) is a widely used measure of subjective sleep disturbance in clinical populations, including individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although the severity of sleep disturbance is generally ... Full text Link to item Cite

A critical evaluation of the complex PTSD literature: implications for DSM-5.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · June 2012 Complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) has been proposed as a diagnosis for capturing the diverse clusters of symptoms observed in survivors of prolonged trauma that are outside the current definition of PTSD. Introducing a new diagnosis requires a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Long-term outcomes of cognitive-behavioral treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder among female rape survivors.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · April 2012 OBJECTIVE: We conducted a long-term follow-up (LTFU) assessment of participants from a randomized controlled trial comparing cognitive processing therapy (CPT) with prolonged exposure (PE) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Competing hypotheses for ... Full text Link to item Cite

Does physiologic response to loud tones change following cognitive-behavioral treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder?

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · February 2012 This study examined responses to loud tones before and after cognitive-behavioral treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Seventy-four women in a PTSD treatment outcome study for rape-related (n = 54) or physical assault-related PTSD (n = 20) w ... Full text Link to item Cite

Dissemination and experience with cognitive processing therapy.

Journal Article J Rehabil Res Dev · 2012 Clinical practice guidelines suggest that cognitive behavioral therapies are recommended for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). One of these treatments, cognitive processing therapy (CPT), is an evidence-based treatment that has been sh ... Full text Link to item Cite

Considering PTSD for DSM-5.

Journal Article Depress Anxiety · September 2011 This is a review of the relevant empirical literature concerning the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for PTSD. Most of this work has focused on Criteria A1 and A2, the two components of the A (Stressor) Criterion. With regard to A1, the review considers: (a) ... Full text Link to item Cite

Classification of trauma and stressor-related disorders in DSM-5.

Journal Article Depress Anxiety · September 2011 This review examines the question of whether there should be a cluster of disorders, including the adjustment disorders (ADs), acute stress disorder (ASD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the dissociative disorders (DDs), in a section devoted to ... Full text Link to item Cite

Group cognitive processing therapy delivered to veterans via telehealth: a pilot cohort.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · August 2011 The authors report clinical findings from the pilot cohort of the first prospective, noninferiority-designed randomized clinical trial evaluating the clinical outcomes of delivering a cognitive-behavioral group intervention for posttraumatic stress disorde ... Full text Link to item Cite

Intimate partner violence exposure predicts PTSD treatment engagement and outcome in cognitive processing therapy.

Journal Article Behav Ther · June 2011 Intimate partner violence (IPV) exposure was examined as a predictor of treatment engagement (i.e., starting and completing therapy) and treatment outcome in 150 women taking part in a dismantling study of cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for posttraumat ... Full text Link to item Cite

STRESSFUL DEPLOYMENT EVENTS AND POST-DEPLOYMENT SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR IN VETERANS OF THE AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ WARS

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY · June 1, 2011 Link to item Cite

Victim-Offender Relationship Status Moderates the Relationships of Peritraumatic Emotional Responses, Active Resistance, and Posttraumatic Stress Symptomatology in Female Rape Survivors.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · June 1, 2011 This study examined whether the level of victim-offender relationship (VOR) moderated the relationship between peritraumatic fear and active resistance as well as the relationship between peritraumatic fear and posttraumatic stress symptom severity in a co ... Full text Link to item Cite

Identifying patterns of symptom change during a randomized controlled trial of cognitive processing therapy for military-related posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · June 2011 Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been shown to reduce symptoms of PTSD in a veteran population. This study explored patterns of self-reported symptom change during CPT. Veterans (N = 60) with PTSD were randomi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive-behavioral therapy for PTSD and depression symptoms reduces risk for future intimate partner violence among interpersonal trauma survivors.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · April 2011 OBJECTIVE: Women who develop symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression subsequent to interpersonal trauma are at heightened risk for future intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is effective ... Full text Link to item Cite

Gender differences in the clinical presentation of PTSD and its concomitants in survivors of interpersonal assault.

Journal Article J Interpers Violence · March 2011 This study compares a sample of PTSD-positive, female survivors of interpersonal assault (n = 162) to a sample of similarly traumatized male counterparts (n = 45) on a number of variables, including PTSD-symptom severity, depressive symptoms, anger, guilt, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Trauma reactivity, avoidant coping, and PTSD symptoms: a moderating relationship?

Journal Article J Abnorm Psychol · February 2011 In the immediate aftermath of a traumatic event, many individuals experience physiological reactivity in response to reminders of the traumatic event that typically lessens over time. However, an overreliance on avoidant coping strategies may interfere wit ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive-behavioral conjoint therapy for PTSD: Pilot results from a community sample.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · January 10, 2011 Seven couples participated in an uncontrolled trial of cognitive-behavioral conjoint therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Among the 6 couples who completed treatment, 5 of the patients no longer met criteria for PTSD and there were across-trea ... Full text Link to item Cite

Treatment for PTSD: The Effect of Dissociation on Treatment Outcome

Conference EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTRAUMATOLOGY · January 1, 2011 Link to item Cite

The contribution of childhood family violence on later intimate partner violence among robbery victims.

Journal Article Violence Vict · 2011 This study examined the relative contributions of the three forms of childhood family violence exposure on physical intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization among recent robbery victims and tested a gender-matching modeling prediction for IPV risk. Da ... Full text Link to item Cite

Dissemination of evidence-based psychological treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder in the Veterans Health Administration.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · December 2010 Unlike the post-Vietnam era, effective, specialized treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) now exist, although these treatments have not been widely available in clinical settings. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is nationally dis ... Full text Link to item Cite

Physiological predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · December 2010 Studies have assessed relationships between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and physiological reactivity concurrently; fewer have assessed these relationships longitudinally. This study tests concurrent and prospective relationships between p ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impact of race on early treatment termination and outcomes in posttraumatic stress disorder treatment.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · August 2010 OBJECTIVE: The present study investigated the influence of race on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment among 94 African American and 214 Caucasian female victims of interpersonal violence participating in 2 studies of cognitive-behavioral treatm ... Full text Link to item Cite

Associations among disaster exposure, intimate relationship adjustment, and PTSD symptoms: can disaster exposure enhance a relationship?

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · August 2010 This study examined associations among disaster characteristics, relationship adjustment, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology 9 months postdisaster in 205 women exposed to extensive flooding. Bivariately, threat/harm and loss exposure d ... Full text Link to item Cite

Duration of exposure and the dose-response model of PTSD.

Journal Article J Interpers Violence · January 2010 A dose-response model underlies posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and posits a relationship between event magnitude and clinical outcome. The present study examines whether one index of event magnitude--duration of exposure--contributes to risk of PTSD ... Full text Link to item Cite

Multilevel regression analyses to investigate the relationship between two variables over time: examining the longitudinal association between intrusion and avoidance.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · December 2009 Multilevel modeling is a powerful and flexible framework for analyzing nested data structures (e.g., repeated measures or longitudinal designs). The authors illustrate a series of multilevel regression procedures that can be used to elucidate the nature of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Posttraumatic stress disorder: anxiety or traumatic stress disorder?

Conference J Trauma Stress · October 2009 The authors examine the question of whether posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) should continue to be classified with the anxiety disorders in the upcoming revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V; Americ ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sexual function outcomes in women treated for posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article J Womens Health (Larchmt) · October 2009 BACKGROUND: This study examined dysfunctional sexual behavior and sexual concerns in women treated for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). There were three objectives: to characterize the relationship between symptoms of PTSD and sexual outcomes, to exam ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive and affective predictors of treatment outcome in Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure for posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article Behav Res Ther · September 2009 This study examined cognitive and affective predictors of treatment dropout and treatment efficacy in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Prolonged Exposure (PE) for PTSD. Study participants were women with PTSD from a sexual assault who received at lea ... Full text Link to item Cite

The role of couples' interacting world assumptions and relationship adjustment in women's postdisaster PTSD symptoms.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · August 2009 This study examined 58 heterosexual couples' interacting assumptions about the world and relationship adjustment in predicting wives' posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms after severe flooding. Both partners completed the World Assumptions Scale ( ... Full text Link to item Cite

An Investigation of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depressive Symptomatology among Female Victims of Interpersonal Trauma.

Journal Article J Fam Violence · August 1, 2009 This study examined factors associated with PTSD-depression comorbidity among a sample of 162 adult female rape or assault victims with PTSD, as well as potential differential predictors of PTSD and depression severity. PTSD-only participants reported high ... Full text Link to item Cite

Participant reactions to a pretreatment research assessment during a treatment outcome study for PTSD.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · August 2009 Participants' reactions to pretreatment assessments have not been studied as part of a randomized clinical trial (RCT) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The current study examined participants' reactions in women with PTSD who completed pretreatmen ... Full text Link to item Cite

The impact of sudden gains in cognitive behavioral therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · August 2009 This study investigated sudden gains, i.e., rapid and stable improvements, in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms that may occur in cognitive-behavioral therapy. Twenty-nine of 72 participants (39.2%) experienced a sudden gain during treatment. M ... Full text Link to item Cite

The effect of cognitive processing therapy on cognitions: impact statement coding.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · June 2009 This study compared the cognitions of 37 female rape survivors before and after completing cognitive processing therapy (CPT). It was hypothesized that CPT would be associated with reductions in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and problematic ... Full text Link to item Cite

Does cognitive-behavioral therapy for PTSD improve perceived health and sleep impairment?

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · June 2009 There is a paucity of empirical study about the effects of evidence-based psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on concurrent health concerns including sleep impairment. This study compares the differential effects of cognitive processing ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sexual harassment in the Marines, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and perceived health: evidence for sex differences.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · February 2009 Sex differences and pretrauma functioning have been understudied in examinations of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PSS) and health. This study examined relationships between sexual harassment and assault in the military (MST), PSS, and perceived physical h ... Full text Link to item Cite

DSM-V: should PTSD be in a class of its own?

Journal Article Br J Psychiatry · January 2009 Full text Link to item Cite

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms, Relationship Adjustment, and Relationship Aggression in a Sample of Female Flood Victims.

Journal Article J Fam Violence · January 1, 2009 This study tested a model examining the interrelationships among posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, intimate relationship adjustment, and intimate relationship aggression in a sample of 205 adult female flood victims. At the bivariate level, hi ... Full text Link to item Cite

The structure of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in three female trauma samples: a comparison of interview and self-report measures.

Journal Article J Anxiety Disord · October 2008 Empirical research increasingly suggests that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is comprised of four factors: re-experiencing, avoidance, numbing, and hyperarousal. Nonetheless, there remains some inconsistency in the findings of factor analyses that f ... Full text Link to item Cite

Risk factors for physical injury among help-seeking battered women: an exploration of multiple abuse dimensions.

Journal Article Violence Against Women · October 2008 Physical injuries among battered women represent risks for both acute and long-term physical health functioning. The current study assessed the nature and extent of minor and severe injuries among a help-seeking sample of battered women. Hierarchical regre ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive Processing Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Secondary to a Motor Vehicle Accident: A Single-Subject Report

Journal Article Cognitive and Behavioral Practice · August 1, 2008 Motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) are fairly common occurrences in all developed countries. Although only a small percentage of total MVAs result in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the high base rate in the population has resulted in the estimation that ... Full text Cite

Beyond fear: the role of peritraumatic responses in posttraumatic stress and depressive symptoms among female crime victims.

Journal Article J Interpers Violence · June 2008 This study examines peritraumatic (and posttrauma) responses in a sample of female crime victims who had been sexually or physically assaulted within the previous 2 months. Women were interviewed about their emotional and behavioral responses during the tr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mental health consequences of intimate partner abuse: a multidimensional assessment of four different forms of abuse.

Journal Article Violence Against Women · June 2008 Battered women are exposed to multiple forms of intimate partner abuse. This article explores the independent contributions of physical violence, sexual coercion, psychological abuse, and stalking on symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and dep ... Full text Link to item Cite

Posttraumatic stress disorder, alcohol use, and physical health concerns.

Journal Article J Behav Med · April 2008 PTSD is a risk factor for alcohol problems and both in turn have been independently associated with increased health problems. However, it is unclear whether alcohol use moderates the relationship between PTSD and health. Participants were battered women ( ... Full text Link to item Cite

A randomized clinical trial to dismantle components of cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in female victims of interpersonal violence.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · April 2008 The purpose of this experiment was to conduct a dismantling study of cognitive processing therapy in which the full protocol was compared with its constituent components--cognitive therapy only (CPT-C) and written accounts (WA)--for the treatment of posttr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Borderline personality characteristics and treatment outcome in cognitive-behavioral treatments for PTSD in female rape victims.

Journal Article Behav Ther · March 2008 Many studies report that comorbid borderline personality pathology is associated with poorer outcomes in the treatment of Axis I disorders. Given the high rates of comorbidity between borderline personality pathology and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD ... Full text Link to item Cite

Longitudinal investigation of reciprocal relationship between stress reactions and hardiness.

Journal Article Pers Soc Psychol Bull · January 2008 Although many studies have examined hardiness as a protective factor against stress reactions, to the authors' knowledge no studies have yet examined the impact of stress reactions on hardiness. However, there is theoretical support for this notion. In thi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Whose role is it any way?

Journal Article Psychiatry · December 1, 2007 Full text Cite

Posttraumatic stress disorder and physical health symptoms among women seeking help for relationship aggression.

Journal Article J Fam Psychol · September 2007 This study examined associations between intimate partner aggression and physical health symptoms among a sample of help-seeking women experiencing relationship aggression (N = 388). Using a structural equation modeling framework, the authors found posttra ... Full text Link to item Cite

Posttraumatic growth in treatment-seeking female assault victims.

Journal Article Psychiatr Q · June 2007 The importance of measuring growth outcomes following a traumatic event has been highlighted in recent literature (e.g., Linley, Joseph: Journal of Traumatic Stress 17:11-21, 2004). Although reports of growth are abundant, the relationship between growth o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Domestic violence and alcohol use: trauma-related symptoms and motives for drinking.

Journal Article Addict Behav · June 2007 Alcohol use is frequently associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), especially in the face of chronic traumatic experiences. However, the relationship between alcohol use and symptoms associated with chronic trauma exposure has not been evaluat ... Full text Link to item Cite

A review of marital rape

Journal Article Aggression and Violent Behavior · May 1, 2007 The current paper represents a comprehensive review of marital rape, including its legal history and numerous aspects of its perpetration and victimization. Specifically, this review focuses on theories and forms of marital rape, the scope of the problem, ... Full text Cite

Internalizing and externalizing subtypes in female sexual assault survivors: implications for the understanding of complex PTSD.

Journal Article Behav Ther · March 2007 This study replicated and extended findings of internalizing and externalizing subtypes of posttraumatic psychopathology (Miller, M. W., Greif, J. L., & Smith, A. A. (2003). Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire profiles of veterans with traumatic com ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive behavioral therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in women: a randomized controlled trial.

Journal Article JAMA · February 28, 2007 CONTEXT: The prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is elevated among women who have served in the military, but no prior study has evaluated treatment for PTSD in this population. Prior research suggests that cognitive behavioral therapy is a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Posttraumatic Therapy

Chapter · January 1, 2007 This chapter summarizes criteria necessary for the diagnosis of acute stress disorder, as well as acute and chronic PTSD, early interventions that may prevent the development of chronic PTSD, and psychological as well as pharmacological interventions shown ... Full text Cite

Coping among victims of relationship abuse: a longitudinal examination.

Journal Article Violence Vict · 2007 This longitudinal study examined the associations between relationship abuse, coping variables, and mental health outcomes among a sample of battered women obtained from shelter and nonresidential community agencies (N = 61). Sexual aggression was a strong ... Full text Link to item Cite

Examining the correlates of engagement and disengagement coping among help-seeking battered women.

Journal Article Violence Vict · 2007 This study examined several potential correlates of engagement and disengagement coping, including abuse-related factors, socioeconomic and social coping resources, and childhood trauma variables among a sample of battered women (N = 388). Relationship abu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Changes in coping strategies, relationship to the perpetrator, and posttraumatic distress in female crime victims.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · December 2006 This study examined the relationship between changes in coping and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology among recent female rape and physical assault victims as a function of assault type and perpetrator status. Participants were assessed wi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Practical Adaptations of Cognitive Processing Therapy with Bosnian Refugees: Implications for Adapting Practice to a Multicultural Clientele

Journal Article Cognitive and Behavioral Practice · November 1, 2006 Recent findings suggest that established psychological treatments for PTSD are effective for diverse populations, including war refugees who have experienced multiple and severe losses, deprivations, hardships, and atrocities. Treating non-English-speaking ... Full text Cite

The Effectiveness of Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD With Refugees in a Community Setting

Journal Article Cognitive and Behavioral Practice · November 1, 2006 Opinions vary on the generalizability of empirically supported treatments to diverse populations in naturalistic settings and on the relative merits of delivering treatments through interpreters. The authors present statistical analyses of outcome data fro ... Full text Cite

Cognitive processing therapy for veterans with military-related posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · October 2006 Sixty veterans (54 men, 6 women) with chronic military-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) participated in a wait-list controlled trial of cognitive processing therapy (CPT). The overall dropout rate was 16.6% (20% from CPT, 13% from waiting list) ... Full text Link to item Cite

Alcohol problems and posttraumatic stress disorder in female crime victims.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · June 2006 Comorbidity between alcohol use and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been well documented. However, there are few longitudinal studies with acute trauma samples. The present study examined symptoms of alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and PTSD longitudi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive mediation of childhood maltreatment and adult depression in recent crime victims

Journal Article Behavior Therapy · December 1, 2005 Childhood maltreatment has been linked to adult depressive disorders. However, few studies have examined mechanisms through which childhood maltreatment may contribute to adult depression. Thus, we examined the role of one potential mechanism of this relat ... Full text Cite

Issues in the design of multisite clinical trials of psychotherapy: VA Cooperative Study No. 494 as an example.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials · December 2005 This article describes issues in the design of an ongoing multisite randomized clinical trial of psychotherapy for treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in female veterans and active duty personnel. Research aimed at testing treatments for PTSD in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Peritraumatic responses and their relationship to perceptions of threat in female crime victims.

Journal Article Violence Against Women · December 2005 Peritraumatic responses, aside from dissociation, have been understudied in acute trauma populations. Participants were 172 female rape, 68 assault, and 80 robbery victims recruited through formal reporting agencies and assessed 1 month after the crime. De ... Full text Link to item Cite

Resolution of trauma-related guilt following treatment of PTSD in female rape victims: a result of cognitive processing therapy targeting comorbid depression?

Journal Article J Affect Disord · June 2005 BACKGROUND AND METHODS: Although Resick et al. [Resick, P.A., Nishith, P., Weaver, T.L., Astin, M.C., Feuer, C.A., 2002. A comparison of cognitive-processing therapy with prolonged exposure and a waiting condition for the treatment of chronic posttraumatic ... Full text Link to item Cite

Enhanced cortisol suppression following dexamethasone administration in domestic violence survivors.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · June 2005 OBJECTIVE: The authors compared responses of female domestic violence survivors and a matched group of nontraumatized participants to a low-dose (0.5 mg) dexamethasone suppression test (DST). METHOD: Seventy female domestic violence survivors and 14 nontra ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prediction of numbing and effortful avoidance in female rape survivors with chronic PTSD.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · April 2005 The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationships among numbing, arousal, intrusion, and avoidance in a sample of 272 female rape survivors. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to test a theoretical model, which posits that hype ... Full text Link to item Cite

Hopelessness as a risk factor for post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among interpersonal violence survivors.

Journal Article Cogn Behav Ther · 2005 Post-traumatic stress disorder often co-occurs with depression, and they may share common risk factors. One possible common cognitive risk factor is hopelessness. Thus, we examined whether hopelessness was related to symptoms of post-traumatic stress disor ... Full text Link to item Cite

Comparison of the posttraumatic stress disorder scale versus the clinician-administered posttraumatic stress disorder scale in domestic violence survivors.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · December 2004 The posttraumatic diagnostic scale (PDS) is a self-report instrument for PTSD that is simple to administer and has demonstrated good psychometric properties. We compared the PDS with the gold standard clinician administered PTSD scale (CAPS) diagnostic int ... Full text Link to item Cite

A suggested research agenda on treatment-outcome research for female victims of violence.

Journal Article J Interpers Violence · November 2004 Full text Link to item Cite

An exploration of comorbid depression among female victims of intimate partner violence with posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article J Affect Disord · October 15, 2004 BACKGROUND AND METHODS: Factors contributing to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and comorbid major depression (MDD) were investigated among female victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). RESULTS: High levels of PTSD (75% of the sample) and MDD (54 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Coping among adult female victims of domestic violence

Journal Article Journal of Family Violence · October 1, 2004 This paper examines the current literature regarding coping among battered women. It considers a number of contextual factors that are related to women's choices in coping with partner abuse, including factors related to the relationship (e.g., frequency a ... Full text Cite

Alcohol use in female domestic violence victims: The role of trauma, PTSD, and motives for drinking

Conference ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH · May 1, 2004 Link to item Cite

The accumulative effect of trauma exposure on short-term and delayed verbal memory in a treatment-seeking sample of female rape victims.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · February 2004 The accumulative effect of prior high-magnitude trauma exposure on memory was examined in 73 rape victims, 92% of whom had current posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Participants were administered the Logical Memory component of the Wechsler Memory Scal ... Full text Link to item Cite

Panic following trauma: the etiology of acute posttraumatic arousal.

Journal Article J Anxiety Disord · 2004 Two studies examined the contributing factors for panic symptoms following trauma. In Study 1, survivors of sexual and nonsexual assaults (N=105) were assessed at 2 weeks postcrime. Prior trauma, psychiatric history, crime characteristics, and peritraumati ... Full text Link to item Cite

Auditory startle modification following treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder

Conference PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY · January 1, 2004 Link to item Cite

Post Hoc Reasoning in Possible Cases of Child Sexual Abuse: Just say no

Journal Article Clinical Psychology Science and Practice · December 1, 2003 In this commentary on "Post Hoc Reasoning in Possible Cases of Child Sexual Abuse: Symptoms of Inconclusive Origins" (Sbraga & O'Donohue, 2003; this issue) I do not disagree with the authors' ultimate objection with the possible practice of presuming abuse ... Full text Cite

A pilot study of PTSD symptoms among Kalahari Bushmen.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · October 2003 This study reflects an attempt to assess posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a radically nonwestern culture, that of the Kalahari Bushmen, the Ju/'hoansi. After translating DSM-IV PTSD symptoms into their difficult and click-laden language, potential p ... Full text Link to item Cite

Changes in religious beliefs following trauma.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · August 2003 Information processing theorists propose that traumatic events can lead to disruptions in the processing of information and to changes in beliefs. This study examined the relationships among trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and religious belie ... Full text Link to item Cite

Living in danger: the impact of chronic traumatization and the traumatic context on posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article Trauma Violence Abuse · July 2003 In this article on the effects of chronic traumatization, research is reviewed regarding the association between chronicity of traumatization and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology. The contribution of the broader traumatic context to PTSD ... Full text Link to item Cite

Marital rape: history, research, and practice.

Journal Article Trauma Violence Abuse · July 2003 Despite the increased recognition that the topic of marital rape has generated in the past 2 decades, the literature in this area remains sparse. This article provides a comprehensive review of the current state of the marital rape literature. First, the l ... Full text Link to item Cite

Participation in trauma research: is there evidence of harm?

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · June 2003 Few studies have examined the impact of trauma research participation upon trauma survivors. Empirical data regarding reactions to research participation would be very useful to address the question of whether it is harmful for trauma survivors to particip ... Full text Link to item Cite

How well does cognitive-behavioral therapy treat symptoms of complex PTSD? An examination of child sexual abuse survivors within a clinical trial.

Journal Article CNS Spectr · May 2003 Are brief cognitive-behavioral treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also effective for the wider range of symptoms conceptualized as complex PTSD? Female rape victims, most of whom had extensive histories of trauma, were randomly assigned to ... Full text Link to item Cite

The relative effects of intimate partner physical and sexual violence on post-traumatic stress disorder symptomatology.

Journal Article Violence Vict · February 2003 This study examined the relative effects of intimate partner physical and sexual violence on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptomatology. Severity of physical and sexual violence as well as PTSD severity were assessed in a sample of 62 help-seekin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pattern of change in prolonged exposure and cognitive-processing therapy for female rape victims with posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · August 2002 Curve estimation techniques were used to identify the pattern of therapeutic change in female rape victims with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Within-session data on the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Scale were obtained, in alternate therapy ... Full text Link to item Cite

A comparison of cognitive-processing therapy with prolonged exposure and a waiting condition for the treatment of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder in female rape victims.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · August 2002 The purpose of this study was to compare cognitive-processing therapy (CPT) with prolonged exposure and a minimal attention condition (MA) for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. One hundred seventy-one female rape victims ... Full text Link to item Cite

Schematic integration of traumatic events.

Journal Article Clin Psychol Rev · February 2002 Across multiple disciplines of psychology, one commonly used heuristic device, the schema, has often been called upon to illustrate the integration of an event. This paper is a critical examination of the literature on schemas and traumatic events. Three p ... Full text Link to item Cite

Brief treatment of complicated PTSD and peritraumatic responses in a client with repeated sexual victimization

Journal Article Cognitive and Behavioral Practice · January 1, 2002 The present case study describes the successful treatment of a woman with a history of sexual, physical, and psychological abuse in childhood and multiple rapes in adulthood, utilizing a relatively brief cognitive-behavioral treatment, Cognitive Processing ... Full text Cite

Trauma-related sleep disturbance and self-reported physical health symptoms in treatment-seeking female rape victims.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · September 2001 The purpose of the study was to assess the relationship between trauma-related sleep disturbance and physical health symptoms in treatment-seeking female rape victims. A total of 167 participants were assessed for PTSD symptoms, depression, sleep disturban ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sleep difficulties and alcohol use motives in female rape victims with posttraumatic stress disorder.

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · July 2001 The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between sleep difficulties and drinking motives in female rape victims with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Seventy-four participants were assessed for PTSD symptoms, depression, sleep difficul ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder

Journal Article Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy an International Quarterly · January 1, 2001 Cognitive therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder is in the early stages of development and study. This article will examine seven controlled studies that included at least a component of cognitive therapy. Two studies specifically focused on early inter ... Full text Cite

Prior interpersonal trauma: the contribution to current PTSD symptoms in female rape victims.

Journal Article J Abnorm Psychol · February 2000 The purpose of the current study was to disentangle the relationship of childhood sexual abuse and childhood physical abuse from prior adult sexual and physical victimization in predicting current posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in recent rap ... Link to item Cite

The impact of severe stalking experienced by acutely battered women: an examination of violence, psychological symptoms and strategic responding.

Journal Article Violence Vict · 2000 Stalking has been relatively understudied compared to other dimensions of intimate partner violence. The purpose of this article was to examine concurrent and subsequent intimate partner abuse, strategic responses and symptomatic consequences of severe sta ... Link to item Cite

Intimate partner violence and stalking behavior: exploration of patterns and correlates in a sample of acutely battered women.

Journal Article Violence Vict · 2000 The aims of this study were to provide descriptive data on stalking in a sample of acutely battered women and to assess the interrelationship between constructs of emotional abuse, physical violence, and stalking in battered women. We recruited a sample of ... Link to item Cite

Prolonged exposure therapy and irritable bowel syndrome: A case study examining the impact of a trauma-focused treatment on a physical condition (vol 5, pg 103, 1998)

Journal Article COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIORAL PRACTICE · December 1, 1999 Link to item Cite

A comparison of normal forgetting, psychopathology, and information-processing models of reported amnesia for recent sexual trauma.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · December 1998 This study assessed memories for sexual trauma in a nontreatment-seeking sample of recent rape victims and considered competing explanations for failed recall. Participants were 92 female rape victims assessed within 2 weeks of the rape; 62 were also asses ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prolonged Exposure Therapy and Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Case Study Examining the Impact of a Trauma-Focused Treatment on a Physical Condition.

Journal Article Cogn Behav Pract · 1998 Previous research has shown that psychological treatments, particularly those employing cognitive techniques, are particularly effective in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). It is presumed that these psychological interventions are effective ... Full text Link to item Cite

Objective assessment of peritraumatic dissociation: psychophysiological indicators.

Journal Article Am J Psychiatry · August 1997 OBJECTIVE: The aims of this study were to investigate psychophysiological changes associated with peritraumatic dissociation in female victims of recent rape and to assess the relation between these changes and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PT ... Full text Link to item Cite

Integrating objective indicators of treatment outcome in posttraumatic stress disorder.

Conference Ann N Y Acad Sci · June 21, 1997 Full text Link to item Cite

Development of a criteria set and a structured interview for disorders of extreme stress (SIDES).

Journal Article J Trauma Stress · January 1997 Data regarding the development of a structured interview measuring alterations that may accompany extreme stress are presented. A list of 27 criteria often seen in response to extreme trauma and not addressed by DSM-IV criteria for posttraumatic stress dis ... Full text Link to item Cite

Adapting cognitive processing therapy for child sexual abuse survivors

Journal Article Cognitive and Behavior Practice · January 1, 1997 With the advent of managed care, there is an increasing need for short-term, empirically based treatments. This article presents a cognitive behavioral therapy protocol for the treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, Cognitive Processing Th ... Full text Cite

Rape: The misunderstood crime. By Julie A. Allison & Lawrence S. Wrightsman. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1993, 307 pages. Hardcover: $45.00, softcover: $21.95

Journal Article Journal of Traumatic Stress · January 1995 Full text Cite

Causal Attributions, Depression, and Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder in Victims of Crime

Journal Article Journal of Applied Social Psychology · January 1, 1995 The major purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between causal attributions and symptomatology in victims of crime. Fifty‐one subjects who had not been crime victims and 120 subjects who had been crime victims participated in the study and ... Full text Cite

The Psychological Impact of Rape

Journal Article Journal of Interpersonal Violence · January 1, 1993 The purpose of the present article is to review the literature on the psychological impact of rape on adult female victims. Typical patterns of recovery, types of symptoms, and variables affecting recovery are all reviewed. Among the problems discussed are ... Full text Cite

Cognitive processing therapy for sexual assault victims.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · October 1992 Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) was developed to treat the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in rape victims. CPT is based on an information processing theory of PTSD and includes education, exposure, and cognitive components. Nineteen se ... Full text Link to item Cite

TREATMENT OF RAPE VICTIMS - FACILITATING PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT - CALHOUN,KS, ATKESON,BM

Journal Article HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRY · May 1, 1992 Link to item Cite

COGNITIVE TREATMENT OF A CRIME-RELATED POSTTRAUMATIC-STRESS-DISORDER

Conference AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE THROUGHOUT THE LIFE SPAN · January 1, 1992 Link to item Cite

Treating Symptoms in Adult Victims of Sexual Assault

Journal Article Journal of Interpersonal Violence · January 1, 1990 This article reviews the prevalent theories and treatments regarding symptoms which may follow in the wake of sexual assault. Crisis theory and intervention are addressed first, followed by a description and discussion of cognitive and behavioral treatment ... Full text Cite

Single- Versus Multiple-Incident Rape Victims: A Comparison of Psychological Reactions to Rape

Journal Article Journal of Interpersonal Violence · January 1, 1988 The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of prior victimization on long-term functioning of rape victims. Subjects were 52 rape victims who had been assaulted from 3 months to 34 years previously. All participants were given a structured ... Full text Cite

A comparative outcome study of behavioral group therapy for sexual assault victims

Journal Article Behavior Therapy · January 1, 1988 Thirty-seven rape victims completed a study comparing three types of group therapy: stress inoculation, assertion training, and supportive psychotherapy plus information. Thirteen participants comprised a naturally occurring waiting-list control group. The ... Full text Cite

Psychological Effects of Victimization: Implications for the Criminal Justice System

Journal Article Crime Delinquency · January 1, 1987 The purposes of this article are to review research on psychological reactions to criminal victimization, to consider how victims might be affected by participation in the criminal justice system, and to offer some recommendations for the treatment of vict ... Full text Cite

Women's attributions of responsibility for date rape: the influence of empathy and sex-role stereotyping.

Journal Article Violence Vict · 1987 The purpose of the study presented here was to investigate the relationship among sex-role stereotyping, empathy with the victim, and subsequent blaming of the victim in response to a date-rape scenario. It was hypothesized that sex-typed (traditional) fem ... Link to item Cite

Post-traumatic stress disorder in a vietnam nurse: Behavioral analysis of a case study

Journal Article Women and Therapy · July 16, 1986 Full text Cite

Assessment of fear reactions in sexual assault victims: A factor analytic study of the Veronen-Kilpatrick modified fear survey

Journal Article Behavioral Assessment · June 1, 1986 The Veronen-Kilpatrick Modified Fear Survey (VK-MFS) was developed to assess the level and content of fear reactions in sexual assault victims. The purpose of the present study was to begin refining the scale by means of a factor analysis of 292 female rap ... Cite

Perception of family social climate and physical aggression in the home

Journal Article Journal of Family Violence · March 1, 1986 Physical aggression between spouses is a serious social problem. This study was designed to determine if social climate is different in the homes where aggression occurs than in nonviolent homes. Students were asked to report whether physical aggression be ... Full text Cite

Subjective distress and violence during rape: their effects on long-term fear.

Journal Article Violence Vict · 1986 A brief review of the literature on reactions to rape is presented, with special emphasis on the relationship between specific aspects of the rape and subsequent fear and anxiety. A model, which incorporates the effects of the victim's subjective experienc ... Link to item Cite

THE TRAUMA OF RAPE AND THE CRIMINAL-JUSTICE SYSTEM

Journal Article JUSTICE SYSTEM JOURNAL · January 1, 1984 Link to item Cite

Victims of rape: repeated assessment of depressive symptoms.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · February 1982 Full text Link to item Cite

A longitudinal examination of fear reactions in victims of rape

Journal Article Journal of Counseling Psychology · January 1, 1982 Investigated fear reactions in rape victims for 1 yr following their assaults. 150 female victims, over 15 yrs of age, seen approximately 2 wks after the assault and at 1, 2, 4, 8, and 12 mo postrape, were compared with a matched control group of nonvictim ... Full text Cite

THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF PERSONALITY AND ACADEMIC MEASURES IN THE PREDICTION OF PSYCHIATRY OR NONPSYCHIATRY MEDICAL SPECIALTY PREFERENCES

Journal Article JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC EDUCATION · January 1, 1982 Link to item Cite

Social adjustment in victims of sexual assault.

Journal Article J Consult Clin Psychol · October 1981 Full text Link to item Cite

Attitudes toward rape among mental health professionals.

Journal Article Am J Community Psychol · August 1981 This study examined the attribution of blame in rape among mental health professionals from one state. Thirty-eight professionals (76% of the total population) completed the Attribution of Rape Blame Scale, a 20-item questionnaire reflecting different ways ... Full text Link to item Cite

Perceived and actual discriminators of conflict from accord in marital communication

Journal Article American Journal of Family Therapy · January 1, 1981 The purpose of the study was to determine if empirically derived dependent variables could be used to differentiate typical conflict and accord discussions in a within-couples design. In Part I, 180 undergraduates selected behavioral cues most indicative o ... Full text Cite

Effects of a Rape Experience: A Longitudinal Study

Journal Article Journal of Social Issues · January 1, 1981 After reviewing previous work on psychological effects of a rape experience, this paper reports the results of a longitudinal investigation of victim reactions to rape. Adult victims (N = 20) were assessed at 1 month, 6 months, and 1 year postrape, and a g ... Full text Cite

Relationships among Gender, Sex-Role Attitudes, Sexual Attitudes, Thoughts, and Behaviors

Journal Article Psychological Reports · April 1980 The purpose of the present study was to determine if there are differences among sex-role attitudes, sexual attitudes, and behavior of men and women. The Attitudes towards Women scale and the Sexual Attitudes and Behavior Survey were administered ... Full text Cite

ASSERTIVENESS, PERSONAL-SPACE, AND THE PERCEPTION OF AGGRESSION

Conference PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN · January 1, 1980 Link to item Cite

The aftermath of rape: recent empirical findings.

Journal Article Am J Orthopsychiatry · October 1979 In a longitudinal study of the effects of rape on a woman's subsequent psychological functioning, objective measures of mood state and psychological distress were obtained at four intervals from 46 recent rape victims and 35 nonvictims. Initial response to ... Full text Link to item Cite

Assessment of the aftermath of rape: Changing patterns of fear

Journal Article Journal of Behavioral Assessment · June 1, 1979 In order to test a social learning theory model which states that fear and anxiety responses are classically conditioned by a terror-inducing rape experience, 46 recent rape victims and 35 nonvictims matched for age, race, and neighborhood of residence wer ... Full text Cite

PARENT-CHILD INTERACTIONS - HABITUATION AND RESENSITIZATION EFFECTS

Journal Article JOURNAL OF CLINICAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY · January 1, 1979 Link to item Cite

Child Maltreatment Intervention: Directions and Issues

Journal Article Journal of Social Issues · January 1, 1979 This article begins with a brief review of various non‐medical intervention procedures for child maltreatment. Psychological intervention is reviewed in more depth, with an emphasis placed on those treatments which have been empirically evaluated. Finally, ... Full text Cite

The Maltreatment of Children: A Review of Theories and Research

Journal Article Journal of Social Issues · January 1, 1979 This article reviews the literature pertaining to the causes of child maltreatment. The review discusses 68 articles from various disciplines and organizes them into four predominant theories; psychodynamic, social learning, social psychological, and socio ... Full text Cite

Systematic slowed speech: a new treatment for stuttering.

Journal Article Behav Res Ther · 1978 Full text Link to item Cite

Sex and practice distribution effects in children

Journal Article Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society · January 1, 1978 The present study, involving 40 prepubescent children in a sex by practice distribution paradigm, completed an evidentiary basis for concluding that the reversal of sex dominance in psychomotor reminiscence tendencies across pubescence was paralleled by a ... Full text Cite

The effect of parental treatment with one child on an untreated sibling

Journal Article Behavior Therapy · January 1, 1976 Time-out for noncompliance and praise for compliance were used by a mother to modify the task completion times of her child. The effect on the task completion times of a sibling, who was present during treatment of his brother, was examined. Although the u ... Full text Cite

An examination of disciplinary procedures with children

Journal Article Journal of Experimental Child Psychology · January 1, 1976 In Experiment I the effect of the contingent application of negative attention (a verbal reprimand plus a brief period in which the authority person glares intently at the child) and repeated commands on the noncompliant behavior of children was examined. ... Full text Cite

Prestatement of contingencies: the effects on acquisition and maintenance of behavior

Journal Article Behavior Therapy · January 1, 1974 Cite