What was helpful in today's session? Responses of clients in two different psychotherapies for posttraumatic stress disorder.

The aim of this study was to qualitatively analyze and compare the written responses clients in treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) gave when asked about helpful and negative aspects of the previous session. Data were collected during a randomized quantitative study comparing dialogical exposure therapy (DET, a gestalt-based integrative therapy, = 58) and cognitive processing therapy (CPT, a cognitive-behavioral therapy, = 52). We developed a coding manual using Mayring's (2015) qualitative content analysis approach and were able to code responses reliably.

Difficulties in Conducting Long Term Follow Ups in Psychotherapy Research-Issues in the Literature and Data From a Randomized Therapy Comparison Study for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Studies of psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) typically encompass short follow-up periods, leading to a dearth of information on the long-term course of symptoms after treatment. We summarize existing long-term follow-up studies and highlight the issues making such research difficult. In this context, we report on a 2-year follow-up on a randomized treatment study comparing dialogical exposure therapy and cognitive processing therapy for adults with PTSD after type I trauma.

A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of Dialogical Exposure Therapy versus Cognitive Processing Therapy for Adult Outpatients Suffering from PTSD after Type I Trauma in Adulthood.

Background: Although there are effective treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), there is little research on treatments with non-cognitive-behavioural backgrounds, such as gestalt therapy. We tested an integrative gestalt-derived intervention, dialogical exposure therapy (DET), against an established cognitive-behavioural treatment (cognitive processing therapy, CPT) for possible differential effects in terms of symptomatic outcome and drop-out rates.

Methods: We randomized 141 treatment-seeking individuals with a diagnosis of PTSD to receive either DET or CPT.

Interpersonal Subtypes and Therapy Response in Patients Treated for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Unlabelled: Interpersonal traits may influence psychotherapy success. One way of conceptualizing such traits is the interpersonal circumplex model. In this study, we analyse interpersonal circumplex data, assessed with the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (Horowitz, Strauß, & Kordy, 1994) from a randomized study with 138 patients suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder after trauma in adulthood.

Sudden gains in two psychotherapies for posttraumatic stress disorder.

We examined sudden, large, and stable shifts in symptoms from one therapy session to the next in two treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Shifts in a positive direction (sudden gains) have so far been more frequently analyzed than those in a negative direction (sudden losses). We analyzed data from 102 outpatients suffering from PTSD who received either a cognitive-behavioral or a Gestalt-based intervention.

Feasibility and outcome of dialogical exposure therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder: a pilot study with 25 outpatients.

Objective: The research on psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) stems predominantly from a cognitive-behavioral orientation while other approaches are underrepresented. We evaluated dialogical exposure in trauma therapy (DET), a treatment for PTSD combining cognitive-behavioral elements with an interpersonal, gestalt-based framework.

Methods: In this uncontrolled pilot trial, 25 PTSD patients were treated with DET in an outpatient setting and 21 completed therapy.