Evidence-Based Practice For Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Keywords

Evidence-based practices; Evidence-based psychotherapy; Familial impairments; Occupational impairments; Posttraumatic stress disorder interventions; Social impairments

Abstract

This chapter briefly reviews the evidence for other posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) interventions so as to provide a comprehensive summary of treatment options for the disorder. The appropriate use of evidence-based practices, administered as soon as possible after return from deployment, may offer the best hope for alleviating PTSD and preventing subsequent occupational, social, and familial impairments. A number of etiological pathways and causal mechanisms have been implicated in the development of PTSD. PTSD is a severe psychiatric disorder resulting from a history of exposure to a traumatic event that results in a minimum threshold of symptoms across four symptom clusters namely: intrusion, avoidance, negative alterations in cognitions and mood, and alterations in arousal and reactivity. Additional criteria relate to duration of symptoms, functioning, and differential diagnosis due to a substance or other co-occurring condition.

Publication Date

1-26-2018

Publication Title

Evidence-Based Psychotherapy: The State of the Science and Practice

Number of Pages

157-188

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119462996.ch7

Socpus ID

85049761679 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85049761679

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