Client compliance with exposure treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder

Clients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) do not wish to “relive” their trauma, but exposure based treatments try to ensure that they do. While such treatments have proven efficacy in controlled outcome studies, how acceptable are they in routine clinical practice? The attempted clinical app...

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Published in:Journal of traumatic stress 1997-07, Vol.10 (3), p.523-526
Main Authors: Scott, Michael J., Stradling, Stephen G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abreaction
Adult
Avoidance Learning
Behavior therapy. Cognitive therapy
Biological and medical sciences
comorbid depression
Comorbidity
compliance
Depressive Disorder - psychology
Depressive Disorder - therapy
Desensitization, Psychologic
exposure treatment
Female
Follow-Up Studies
generalizability
Habituation, Psychophysiologic
Humans
Imagination
Male
Medical sciences
Mental Recall
Middle Aged
Patient Compliance - psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
PTSD
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - psychology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - therapy
Treatment Outcome
Treatments
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Summary:Clients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) do not wish to “relive” their trauma, but exposure based treatments try to ensure that they do. While such treatments have proven efficacy in controlled outcome studies, how acceptable are they in routine clinical practice? The attempted clinical application of two such exposure treatments is briefly reported here. In the first, only 1 of 14 clients completed the image habituation procedure for homework in the manner described by its authors. In the second (N = 37), only 57% complied with an audiotape exposure treatment, and compliance was related to initial symptom severity and to severity of comorbid depression. Exposure based treatments are not ‘treatment of choice’ for some clients.
ISSN:0894-9867
1573-6598
DOI:10.1002/jts.2490100315