title: Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder in rape victims: a comparison between cognitive-behavioral procedures and counseling.
abstract: Rape victims with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; N = 45) were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: stress inoculation training (SIT), prolonged exposure (PE), supportive counseling (SC), or wait-list control (WL). Treatments consisted of nine biweekly 90-min individual sessions conducted by a female therapist. Measures of PTSD symptoms, rape-related distress, general anxiety, and depression were administered at pretreatment, posttreatment, and follow-up (M = 3.5 months posttreatment). All conditions produced improvement on all measures immediately post-treatment and at follow-up. However, SIT produced significantly more improvement on PTSD symptoms than did SC and WL immediately following treatment. At follow-up, PE produced superior outcome on PTSD symptoms. The implications of these findings and direction for treatment and future research are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Foa
authors.forename: B O
authors.initials: BO
authors.lastname: Rothbaum
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Riggs
authors.forename: T B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Murdock
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011902:Rape / Q000523:psychology*; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*