Evidence-based treatments for PTSD, new directions, and special challenges.
This paper provides a current review of existing evidence-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with a description of psychopharmacologic options, prolonged exposure therapy, cognitive processing therapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, especially as they pertain to military populations. It further offers a brief summary of promising treatments with a developing evidence base, encompassing both psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy. Finally, challenges to the treatment of PTSD are summarized and future directions suggested.
Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10065, USA. juc2010@med.cornell.edu
Judith
J
Cukor
Megan
M
Olden
Francis
F
Lee
JoAnn
J
Difede
D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D019546:Couples Therapy; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D057169:Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007171:Implosive Therapy; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000523:psychology; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000628:therapy*; D014584:User-Computer Interface
D011619:Psychotropic Drugs