title: [Trauma-focused psychotherapy: Technique, area of application, and treatment outcome].
abstract: Traumatic events may lead to trauma-related disorders such as the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and constraints in quality of life. Meanwhile, there are different trauma-focused psychotherapies that aim to prevent PTSD shortly after experiencing a traumatic event and interventions that aim to treat PTSD. In Germany, cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic trauma-focused approaches are commonly applied. While cognitive-behavioral programs aim at early exposure with the traumatic event, psychodynamic approaches emphasize the need of a period of stabilization before undergoing exposure. With regard to empirical evidence, cognitive-behavioral programs were able to prove their efficacy most often and are recommended in national and international guidelines. The German S3 guideline PTSD is currently under revision.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Bielefeld, Remterweg 69-71, 33649, Bielefeld, Deutschland. carolin.steuwe@evkb.de.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Steuwe
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Bielefeld, Remterweg 69-71, 33649, Bielefeld, Deutschland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Driessen
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Bielefeld, Remterweg 69-71, 33649, Bielefeld, Deutschland.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Beblo
mesh_terms: D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000592:standards*; D064889:Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic / Q000379:methods*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D040921:Stress Disorders, Traumatic / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Cognitive behavioral therapy; Personality disorders; Psychotherapy, psychodynamic; Stress disorders, post-traumatic; Treatment outcome