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24 - Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder

from Section 4 - Treatment of anxiety: current status and controversial issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2010

Helen Blair Simpson
Affiliation:
Columbia University, New York
Yuval Neria
Affiliation:
Columbia University, New York
Roberto Lewis-Fernández
Affiliation:
Columbia University, New York
Franklin Schneier
Affiliation:
Columbia University, New York
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This chapter reviews evidence-based pharmacotherapeutic and psychotherapeutic treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It also discusses the pharmacological literature, mainly placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials (RCTs) that targeted global symptom reduction in PTSD. Preclinical neuroscience studies of emotional learning and memory have suggested that pharmacotherapies may prevent the development of PTSD. The chapter reviews the results from a number of RCTs and discusses several RCTs aimed at particular symptoms associated with PTSD, such as sleep disturbance, hyperarousal, and co-occurring psychotic symptoms. It reviews efforts at prevention of PTSD in individuals recently exposed to significant traumas. While pharmacotherapy research in PTSD has yet to provide conclusive results for other classes of medications, psychotherapy research conducted in the last two decades has shown impressive support for a number of psychotherapies, including prolonged exposure (PE), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), stress inoculation therapy (SIT), and trauma management therapy.
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Anxiety Disorders
Theory, Research and Clinical Perspectives
, pp. 271 - 283
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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