PTSD among Vietnam veterans: An early look at treatment outcome using direct therapeutic exposure
✍ Scribed by Patrick A. Boudewyns; Lee Hyer; Marilyn G. Woods; William R. Harrison; Edward McCranie
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 525 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-9867
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✦ Synopsis
Vietnam combat veteran inpatients were evaluated after being treated in a PTSD special treatment unit. Selected pretreatment measures that included mental and physical problems, combat variables, PTSD symptoms, and the standard MMPI scales found no clinically meaningful differences between a group that was found to be thccesses" and another group found to be 'ffailures, " based on predetermined cut0 f f scores on the VETS scale, a reliable outcome measure for veteran patients. At 3 months post-therapy, a significantly greater number of subjects treated with Direct Therapeutic Exposure (DTE) (flooding therapy) as compared to another group treated with a more conventional individual therapy, were identified as "successes" as opposed to 'ffailures," based on the VETS scale. Also, the number of 'ffailures" was greater for those treated with the more conventional therapy and the number of "successess" was greater for those treated with DTE, when compared to all other subjects in the sample. llese preliminary results were interpreted as indicating that DTE, when offered as part of an inpatient milieu, shows promise as an effective treatment for chronidsevere combat veteran PTSD sufferers.