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Cognitive-Behavioral therapy for PTSD in the real world: Do interpersonal relationships make a real difference?

✍ Scribed by Candice M. Monson; Benjamin F. Rodriguez; Reid Warner

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 116 KB
Volume: 61
Category: Article
ISSN: 0021-9762
DOI: 10.1002/jclp.20096

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✦ Synopsis

The goal of this effectiveness study was to investigate the role of pretreatment interpersonal relationship functioning in two forms of group cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) for veterans with PTSD. Analysis of data from 45 veterans who completed either trauma-or skills-focused CBT indicated no overall differences between the two treatments in PTSD symptomatology, alcohol abuse, or violence perpetration at four months posttreatment. However, there was a stronger inverse relationship between intimate relationship functioning and violence outcomes in the traumafocused group versus the skills-focused group. While no differences in violence outcomes were found between the treatments at poorer levels of pre-treatment intimate relationship functioning, those receiving traumafocused treatment with better pre-treatment intimate relationships reported

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