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Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness of Evidence-based Psychotherapies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Clinical Practice

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About the Course

This is a dense article with a focus on statistics.
While evidence-based psychotherapy (EBP) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a first-line treatment, its real-world effectiveness is unknown. This study compared cognitive processing therapy (CPT) and prolonged exposure (PE) each to an individual psychotherapy comparator group, and CPT to PE in a large national healthcare system.

This course is based on the reading-based online article, Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness of Evidence-based Psychotherapies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Clinical Practice created by Shira Maguen, Ph.D. ,et al. in 2021.

Publication Details

Publication Date: May 2021

Course Material Authors

Course Material Authors authored the material only, and were not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Shira Maguen, Ph.D.
Shira Maguen, Ph.D., is Mental Health Director of the Post-9/11 Integrated Care Clinic and Staff Psychologist on the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Team (PCT) at the San Francisco VA Health Care System (SFVAHCS), and Vice Chair of SFVAHCS and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF School of Medicine. Dr. Maguen was appointed to and served on the Creating Options for Veterans' Expedited Recovery (COVER) Commission. She is also the San Francisco site co-lead for the VA Women’s Practice Based Research Network (PBRN) and Director of the SFVAHCS PTSD MIRECC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Her research interests fall under the umbrella of PTSD, moral injury, and suicide, and include risk and resilience factors in veterans, with a particular focus on female veterans.
Erin Madden, MPH
Erin Madden, MPH, is a Senior Statistician at Kidney Health Research Collaborative in San Francisco, CA. Her main research focus is on using longitudinal observational data for comparative effectiveness research and clinical prediction models. Current projects include comparing the effectiveness of methods for prevention of cardiovascular disease, predicting outcomes of carotid artery revascularization, and comparing methods for the treatment of PTSD.
Nicholas Holder, Ph.D.
Nicholas Holder, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, PTSD treatment specialist, and health services researcher. He is a Clinical Research Psychologist at the San Francisco VA Health Care System (SFVAHCS) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. His research focuses on improving the quality and effectiveness of mental health treatment for Veterans with PTSD, particularly through understanding how to most effectively combine and sequence PTSD treatments.

Target Audience

Counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists and social workers. This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Summarize the research to date on the effectiveness of CPT and PE for PTSD.
  2. 2 Discuss why RCTs may not be reflective of real-world clinical settings.
  3. 3 Summarize the effectiveness of CPT and PE in a real-world veteran population.

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Course Details

1 CE Hour
Reading Online
Course 103326

Related Topics

Evidence Based Interventions Exposure Based Therapy Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)

Availability

This course is available until Aug 20th, 2033.

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