title: Juggling-exposure therapy: an innovation in trauma treatment.
abstract: Three case studies are presented illustrating an innovative treatment approach that integrated a juggling task with exposure therapy for clients who had benefited from trauma therapy but had residual trauma symptoms. All 3 clients reported benefiting considerably from adding the juggling task to the exposure therapy. The effects appeared to be rapid and minimally stressful and generalized to in vivo situations. I suggest that the treatment may have enhanced the response flexibility in brain circuitry involved with preconscious threat detection.
authors.affiliation: a Ottawa Anxiety & Trauma Clinic , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Welburn
mesh_terms: D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007171:Implosive Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013216:Reflex, Startle; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*
keywords: innovative treatments; neurobiology; posttraumatic stress disorder; therapeutic processes