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A field test of group based exposure therapy with 102 veterans with war‐related posttraumatic stress disorder
Author(s) -
Ready David J.,
Thomas Kaprice R.,
Worley Virginia,
Backscheider Andrea G.,
Harvey Leigh Anne C.,
Baltzell David,
Rothbaum Barbara Olasov
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1002/jts.20326
Subject(s) - posttraumatic stress , clinical psychology , psychology , anxiety disorder , psychiatry , test (biology) , anxiety , paleontology , biology
Group‐based exposure therapy (GBET) was field‐tested with 102 veterans with war‐related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Nine to 11 patients attended 3 hours of group therapy per day twice weekly for 16–18 weeks. Stress management and a minimum of 60 hours of exposure was included (3 hours of within‐group war‐trauma presentations per patient, 30 hours of listening to recordings of patient's own war‐trauma presentations and 27 hours of hearing other patients' war‐trauma presentations). Analysis of assessments conducted by treating clinicians pre‐, post‐ and 6‐month posttreatment suggests that GBET produced clinically significant and lasting reductions in PTSD symptoms for most patients on both clinician symptoms ratings (6‐month posttreatment effect size δ = 1.22) and self‐report measures with only three dropouts.