ArticleJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2019
Sticking it out in trauma-focused treatment for PTSD: It takes a village.
Article in Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06957067 (Reducing Dropout and Improving Outcomes From PTSD Therapy), which is not on this map. Cited by 39 papers.
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Reducing Dropout and Improving Outcomes From PTSD Therapy: When to Switch Therapies or Stay the Course
Who cites it
39 citing papers in PubMed.
- Trauma disclosure and willingness to involve close others in therapy across two exposure-based treatments for PTSD.Behaviour research and therapy · 2026Trial
- Examining why therapists add sessions to the written exposure therapy protocol and whether it improves treatment outcome: A mixed-methods analysis.Psychological services · 2026Trial
- Comparing dropout from cognitive processing therapy versus prolonged exposure: Results from a randomized clinical trial.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2026Trial
- Do mindfulness interventions cause harm? Findings from the Learning to Apply Mindfulness to Pain (LAMP) Pragmatic Clinical Trial.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2024Trial
- Cognitive-behavioural conjoint therapy versus prolonged exposure for PTSD in military service members and veterans: results and lessons from a randomized controlled trial.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Trial
- The Use of a Brief Family Intervention to Reduce Dropout Among Veterans in Individual Trauma-Focused Treatment: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of traumatic stress · 2021Trial
- Involving Intimate Partners in Trauma-Focused Treatment: Veteran and Intimate Partner Perspectives.Couple & family psychology · 2026Article
- A Feasibility and Acceptability Trial of Narrative Exposure Therapy During Pregnancy.Behavior therapy · 2026Article
- Family-involved interventions may offer unique benefits for Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experiencing high family strain.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2026Article
- Factors Associated with Treatment Duration in a Trauma-Focused Community Mental Health Setting.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Adolescent social isolation increases social behavior in Wistar rats: Role of post-weaning isolation housing on Social Familiarity-induced Anxiolysis (SoFiA) and social memory in adulthood.Behavioural brain research · 2025Article
- Discrepancies in perceptions of PTSD symptoms among veteran couples: Links to poorer relationship and individual functioning.Family process · 2025Article
- Culturally Considerate Trauma-Focused Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment in Latine/x Populations: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Feasibility of a family-involved intervention to increase engagement in evidenced-based psychotherapies for posttraumatic stress disorder: A pilot study.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2024Article
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans: A Concept Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Alcohol-Related Problems As Moderators of PTSD Symptom Change During Use of a Web-Based Intervention for Hazardous Drinking and PTSD.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2024Article
- Retention in Individual Trauma-Focused Treatment Following Family-Based Treatment Among US Veterans.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Family accommodation in PTSD: Proposed considerations and distinctions from the established transdiagnostic literature.Clinical psychology : a publication of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association · 2023Article
- Women veterans' attitudes toward family involvement in PTSD treatment: A mixed-methods examination.Psychological services · 2023Article
- Mental health therapy for veterans with PTSD as a family affair: A qualitative inquiry into how family support and social norms influence veteran engagement in care.Psychological services · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveOne in 3 veterans will dropout from trauma-focused treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Social environments may be particularly important to influencing treatment retention. We examined the role of 2 support system factors in predicting treatment dropout: social control (direct efforts by loved ones to encourage veterans to participate in treatment and face distress) and symptom accommodation (changes in loved ones' behavior to reduce veterans' PTSD-related distress).
methodVeterans and a loved one were surveyed across 4 VA hospitals. All veterans were initiating prolonged exposure therapy or cognitive processing therapy (n = 272 dyads). Dropout was coded through review of VA hospital records.
resultsRegression analyses controlled for traditional, individual-focused factors likely to influence treatment dropout. We found that, even after accounting for these factors, veterans who reported their loved ones encouraged them to face distress were twice as likely to remain in PTSD treatment than veterans who denied such encouragement.
conclusionsClinicians initiating trauma-focused treatments with veterans should routinely assess how open veterans' support systems are to encouraging veterans to face their distress. Outreach to support networks is warranted to ensure loved ones back the underlying philosophy of trauma-focused treatments. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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