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What Works in the Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? The Definitive Study
What works in the treatment of people with post-traumatic stress? The influential Cochrane Collaboration–an "independent network of people" whose self-professed mission is to help "healthcare providers, policy makers, patients, their advocates and carers, make well-informed decisions, concludes that, "non trauma-focused psychological treatments [do] not reduce PTSD symptoms as significantly…as individual trauma focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TFCBT), eye… — read more
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Are all treatments approaches equally effective?
Bruce Wampold, Ph.D. Late yesterday, I blogged about a soon-to-be published article in Clinical Psychology Review in which the authors argue that the finding by Benish, Imel, & Wampold (2008) of equivalence in outcomes among treatments for PTSD was due to, "bias, overgeneralization, lack of transparency, and poor judgement." Which interpretation of the evidence is correct? Are there… — read more
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History doesn’t repeat itself,
Image via Wikipedia "History doesn’t repeat itself," the celebrated American author, Mark Twain once observed, "but it does rhyme." No better example of Twain’s wry comment than recurring claims about specifc therapeutic approaches. As any clinician knows, every year witnesses the introduction of new treatment models. Invariably, the developers and proponents claim superior effectivess of… — read more