Trial reportBehavior therapy2018
Homework Completion, Patient Characteristics, and Symptom Change in Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Role of the Therapeutic Alliance in Dropout in Cognitive Processing Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.Behavior therapy · 2026Trial
- The temporal sequence of change in PTSD symptoms and hypothesized mediators in Cognitive Processing Therapy and Written Exposure Therapy for PTSD.Behaviour research and therapy · 2021Trial
- Predictors of Dropout in Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD: An Examination of Trauma Narrative Content.Behavior therapy · 2020Trial
- A Feasibility and Acceptability Trial of Narrative Exposure Therapy During Pregnancy.Behavior therapy · 2026Article
- AI-Facilitated Cognitive Reappraisal via Socrates 2.0: Mixed Methods Feasibility Study.JMIR mental health · 2025Article
- Generative artificial intelligence in posttraumatic stress disorder treatment: Exploring five different use cases.Journal of traumatic stress · 2025Article
- Promoting recovery and prevention simultaneously through peer providers to reduce the impact of childhood sexual abuse: Acceptability, feasibility, and fidelity of an integrated intervention model.Psychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.) · 2025Article
- Using machine learning to increase access to and engagement with trauma-focused interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2025Review
- Suicide Risk Among Veterans Who Receive Evidence-Based Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Treatment-related beliefs and reactions among trauma-focused therapy completers and discontinuers: A qualitative examination.Psychological services · 2024Article
- Heart rate reactivity during trauma recall as a predictor of treatment outcome in cognitive processing therapy for PTSD.Behaviour research and therapy · 2024Article
- Predictors of dropout in cognitive processing therapy for PTSD: An examination of in-session treatment processes.Behaviour research and therapy · 2023Article
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- Comparison of MI-oriented versus CBT-oriented adjunctive treatments: impacts on therapeutic alliance and patient engagement during hospital treatment for an eating disorder.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Machine Learning Model to Predict Assignment of Therapy Homework in Behavioral Treatments: Algorithm Development and Validation.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Making sense of poor adherence in PTSD treatment from the perspectives of veterans and their therapists.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2023Article
- Leveraging observational data to identify in-session patient and therapist predictors of cognitive processing therapy response and completion.Journal of traumatic stress · 2023Article
- More is not always better: 2 weeks of intensive cognitive processing therapy-based treatment are noninferior to 3 weeks.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2023Article
- Protocol for individual participant data meta-analysis of interventions for post-traumatic stress.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Patterns of change in physical functioning and posttraumatic stress disorder with cognitive processing therapy in a randomized controlled implementation trial.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2020Article
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Abstract
We evaluated the impact of homework completion on change in PTSD symptoms in the context of two randomized controlled trials of Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD (CPT). Female participants (n = 140) diagnosed with PTSD attended at least one CPT session and were assigned homework at each session. The frequency of homework completion was assessed at the beginning of each session and PTSD symptoms were assessed every other session. Piecewise growth models were used to examine the relationship between homework completion and symptom change. CPT version (with vs without the written trauma account) did not moderate associations between homework engagement and outcomes. Greater pretreatment PTSD symptoms predicted more Session 1 homework completion, but PTSD symptoms did not predict homework completion at other timepoints. More homework completion after Sessions 2 and 3 was associated with less change in PTSD from Session 2 to Session 4, but larger pre-to-post treatment changes in PTSD. Homework completion after Sessions 2 and 3 was associated with greater symptom change among patients who had fewer years of education. More homework completion after Sessions 8 and 9 was associated with larger subsequent decreases in PTSD. Average homework completion was not associated with client characteristics. In the second half of treatment, homework engagement was associated with less dropout. The results suggest that efforts to increase engagement in homework may facilitate symptom change.
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