PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychological and physical condition that is caused by very frightening or distressing events. It occurs in up to 30% of people who experience traumatic events.

Our PTSD Blogs

Complementary therapies for PTSD: can mindfulness combat the mindlessness of combat? #CAMSTRAND2018

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Jul 18 2018

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CAMSTRAND

The #CAMSTRAND2018 delegates blog about a recent systematic review of mind-body therapies for Military Veterans with PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder).

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CBT for anxiety: new meta-analysis confirms significant improvements to target symptoms

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Jul 16 2018

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Inês Pote

CBT plus taper is effective at reducing benzodiazepine use in the short term (3 months) but this effect is not sustained at 6 months.

Inês Pote summarises a recent meta-analysis of randomised placebo-controlled trials of cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety and related disorders.

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Brutalised child soldiers and traumatic distress

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Jul 3 2018

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Rumi

Our blog today explores a new study in the British Journal of Psychiatry of post-traumatic stress disorder among former Yazidi child soldiers in northern Iraq.

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Nature-based therapy for stress-related illnesses

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Jul 2 2018

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Danielle Rhydderch>,
Ian Collings

Danielle Rhydderch and Ian Collings review a new RCT in the British Journal of Psychiatry, which suggests that nature-based therapy is not significantly different to CBT for acute stress reactions, PTSD and adjustment disorders.

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Individual Placement and Support works for US veterans with PTSD

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Jun 12 2018

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Harry Palmer

Harry Palmer from the Centre for Mental Health summarises a recent RCT, which suggests that Individual Placement and Support helps veterans with PTSD to achieve steady work better than the US Veteran Affairs’ transitional work programme.

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Trauma and psychotic experiences: results from a transnational survey

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Dec 1 2017

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Marcus Tan>,
William Lee

Today Marcus Tan and William Lee publish their debut elf blog on a new paper in the British Journal of Psychiatry, which investigates the association between traumatic events and subsequent psychotic experiences.

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The trauma of psychosis: high rates of PTSD in first episode psychosis

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Aug 18 2017

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Jazz Croft

Jazz Croft considers a recent systematic review about traumatic experiences in first-episode psychosis, which finds that nearly 1 in 3 people with first episode psychosis met diagnostic criteria for PTSD.

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Treatments for traumatised refugees: more complex interventions needed

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Aug 2 2017

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Mina Fazel

Mina Fazel considers the findings of a recent systematic review of psychosocial interventions for adult refugees and asylum seekers, which highlights the difficulty of generalising findings given the many different sources of heterogeneity of included studies.

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Tetris for PTSD: behavioural intervention unlikely to vaccinate against intrusions

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Jul 10 2017

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Ioana Cristea

Ioana Cristea disputes the claims of a recent proof-of-concept RCT, which aims to prevent intrusive memories after trauma via a brief intervention involving Tetris computer game play in the emergency department.

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