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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Therapy

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) therapy comprises the psychological treatments used to help people recover from a trauma- and stressor-related disorder that develops after exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or other deeply distressing events. Its goals are to reduce the core symptom cluste…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 5 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 38× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2574-612X 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) therapy comprises the psychological treatments used to help people recover from a trauma- and stressor-related disorder that develops after exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or other deeply distressing events. Its goals are to reduce the core symptom clusters of PTSD, intrusive re-experiencing such as memories and nightmares, avoidance of trauma reminders, negative alterations in mood and cognition, and heightened arousal, and to help patients process the traumatic experience and rebuild functioning. Effective approaches are predominantly trauma-focused psychotherapies that work with the traumatic memory and its meanings, including cognitive and exposure-based methods and relational, analytic, and integrative therapies that address the patient's interpretation of the event and its emotional aftermath. Treatment is complicated by frequent comorbidity: PTSD often co-occurs with depression, dissociation, substance and alcohol use, and trauma-related psychotic phenomena, and it may arise in the context of serious physical illness, requiring care tailored to the individual's full clinical picture. Assessment of trauma history, symptom severity, and co-occurring conditions guides the choice and sequencing of interventions, which may combine psychotherapy with pharmacological support. Research continues to compare modalities, examine mediating mechanisms, and refine how trauma-focused care is delivered, with the aim of improving recovery and quality of life for those affected.

Research published in this journal

5 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Dissociative Amnesia – A Challenge to Therapy  

Staniloiu AngelicaCorresponding author
University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research Cited by 30 doi:10.14302/issn.2574-612X.ijpr-18-2246

How this research is being cited

The 5 articles above have been cited 38 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research (ISSN 2574-612X).

Journal editorial board
Karim Sedky · United States Tullio Scrimali · Italy DAMIANA SCUTERI · Italy

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