We're in This Together: A Case Study of the Concurrent Delivery of Prolonged Exposure Therapy to Intimate Partners With PTSD.

ABSTRACT: Research on the links between intimate relationships and PTSD and the treatments for PTSD tend to be limited to couples in which only one partner within the dyad has PTSD. No investigations, to our knowledge, have empirically examined the simultaneous provision of evidence-based PTSD treatment to both partners in an intimate relationship diagnosed with PTSD. The current case study describes two partners in a different-sex relationship, both diagnosed with current PTSD, who received individual Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy at the same time as part of a larger randomized clinical trial. Each partner received ten, 90-minute individual sessions of PE therapy by two separate clinicians trained in PE followed by a 1-month follow-up. The findings demonstrated significant pre- to posttreatment r

SUBMITTER: Saraiya TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11665925 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature