The ISTSS released a series of videos featuring interviews with people who developed or disseminated interventions for PTSD in accordance with the @ISTSS treatment guidelines. The first three full interviews (on prolonged exposure, cognitive processing therapy and EMDR therapy)

Joar Øveraas Halvorsen Sharif El-Leithy Carmen McLean, PhD Thole Hoppen Ad de Jongh Steph WeIIs, Ph.D. Brian Marx As Ad de Jongh, Philipp Herzog argue in our (German) article: developing "more effective" treatments should not be a priority, because trauma-focused therapy is already very effective. Focus should be on intensification and improved access (dissemination). researchgate.net/publication/36…

Interestingly, therapists who witnessed retraumatization were more likely to use non-trauma focused therapies. Those reporting higher confidence in trauma-focused therapy showed less fear of retraumatization.

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I think it is more correct to say that the larger outcome studies on massed treatment consist of a combination of exposure therapy and EMDR therapy (16 sessions within eight days in total). • Voorendonk, E.M., De Jongh, A., Roozendaal, L., Van Minnen, A. (2020). Trauma-focused

This prize winning study at the EMDR Europe conference in Dublin suggest that EMDR therapy during pregnancy does not adversely affect pregnancy outcomes or the unborn child. Therefore, therapists should not be reluctant to treat pregnant women with FoC using EMDR therapy.

A new study showed that a stabilization phase prior to trauma-focused therapy (i.e. #EMDR therapy) is not cost-effective compared to direct trauma-focused therapy. Non-trauma-focused phase-based treatment does not seem to be a proper approach for the treatment of PTSD due to

Finally a meta-analysis aimed at the effectiveness of treatments for #dental anxiety, in which all therapies are included and, for the first time, a distinction is made between state, dispositional anxiety and dental (specific) #phobia. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…

«Though research to date is encouraging, there is not yet sufficient evidence to suggest that MDMA-AT should be see widespread adoption over current, validated forms PTSD of treatment.» akjournals.com/view/journals/…

I was already a big fan of Rutger Bregman, but listen to how he dares to tell Tucker Carlson how hypocritical he is. 😁

It's a pity that so many authorities and therapists tend to fall into the psychedelic trap, while the effects are not that big and the treatments are long and expensive, compared to existing evidence based, and brief intensive treatment programs for PTSD.

More and more appears to be wrong with the research into MDMA-assisted therapy. Much of the research is payed, influenced, and promoted by the pharmaceutical industry, which stands to make a lot of money if MDMA is eventually labeled as a mainstream treatment for PTSD.

The US National Centre for PTSD has created a fantastic decision aid tool to educate potential patients about the therapies for #PTSD that exist and what one can expect as a patient. With a series of very clear videos. ptsd.va.gov/apps/decisiona…

Wow! The myth that you need to have a strong therapeutic relationship before treating early childhood trauma has finally been shattered by this study.

It is incomprehensible that, given the serious damage in their childhood that people with personality disorders report, existing therapies are mainly concerned with how to learn to cope with their problems and have so far hardly been focused on - or interested in - processing the

Indeed, there is mounting support for the notion that trauma-focused therapy alone is the best treatment approach for personality disorders, and that other "first line treatments" have no additive effects. doi.org/10.1080/200080…

Please note that the evidence for existing (long-term) therapies for personality disorders is very weak, and maybe much weaker than previously thought.