Publications by authors named "Mauricio Montes"

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  • PTSD often coexists with chronic pain, and this study investigates whether treating PTSD can influence pain outcomes.
  • A group of 125 veterans participated in a 3-week cognitive processing therapy program and showed a slight decrease in pain interference during treatment.
  • Results indicated that higher pain interference levels predicted more severe PTSD and depressive symptoms, and reducing pain interference was linked to improvements in PTSD severity, suggesting potential benefits of integrated treatment approaches for veterans.
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  • Intensive Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD showed significant symptom reduction, but few studies explored survivors' perspectives on massed treatments.
  • The study involved interviews with seven trauma survivors after their 1-week CPT, using a qualitative approach to understand their experiences.
  • Five main themes emerged from the data: tangible skills gained, feasibility of the treatment, therapeutic process, symptom changes, and treatment expectations, indicating that 1-week CPT is effective and practical for improving coping skills.
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Unresolved trauma-related guilt has been identified as a factor that can intensify posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD symptomology and is associated with many negative mental health outcomes. Evidence-based treatments, such as Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), have been shown to successfully reduce trauma-related guilt. However, less is known about how trauma-related guilt cognitions change over the course of PTSD treatment and, more specifically, intensive PTSD treatments.

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Despite the established effectiveness of evidence-based PTSD treatments, not everyone responds the same. Specifically, some individuals respond early while others respond minimally throughout treatment. Our ability to predict these trajectories at baseline has been limited.

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Research has supported the utility of brief intensive treatment programs (ITPs) which utilize interventions, such as Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), for reducing severity of symptoms among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These treatments have produced large overall reductions in PTSD severity and demonstrated the persistence of these gains following treatment. However, the potential effects of ITPs on mental, physical, and social functioning following treatment completion has been largely unexplored.

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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatments are increasingly delivered in massed formats and have shown comparable results to standard, weekly treatment. To date, massed cognitive processing therapy (CPT), delivered daily, has been delivered primarily in combination with adjunctive services and among veteran populations, but it has not been rigorously evaluated as a standalone intervention. The present study evaluated 1-week massed CPT delivered virtually (i.

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The promotion of biodiversity conservation strategies must address the lack of information and the difficulty of identifying knowledge gaps that may facilitate our knowledge of different taxonomic groups. Dung beetles constitute one of those groups, despite having been proposed as an efficient bioindicator of environmental disturbance processes. In this work, we aimed to prepare a diagnosis on the state of knowledge of the subfamily Scarabaeinae, focusing on the cover sampling degree of this group in Colombia, with the purpose of identifying high-priority areas that will allow the completion of a national inventory.

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