Blog posts with the tag "Prolonged Exposure Therapy"

Guest Perspective: Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) in a VA Hospital Setting - Findings and Observations

By Jason Goodson  on 26.04.2016 9:30 am

I have been training providers in Prolonged Exposure therapy (PE) and collecting outcome data for the past seven years.  Since I arrived at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, I have been involved in the training of approximately 45 clinicians in PE and collected outcomes for over 300 cases.  And while what follows is certainly not an exhaustive list of factors to consider in providing PE to a Veteran population, it does represent a convergence of my clinical observations and our empirical findings.  With that stated, my findings and observations in providing PE to veterans are:  1) therapist experience matters; 2) service-connection is an important issue; and 3) not enough attention is paid to safety behaviors.

Staff Perspective: Review of Exposure Therapy for Anxiety: Principles and Practice

By Kelly Chrestman  on 18.11.2015 12:42 pm

I read this book because I thought I might like to recommend it to new therapists who are just learning exposure techniques. I actually found that it has a much broader range than that. As it turns out, this is a solid and comprehensive review of the behavioral principles of exposure therapy and a pretty fantastic guide to implementation of exposure with a wide variety of anxious patients.

Staff Perspective: Summer Vacation: The Benefits of “Exposure”

By Paula Domenici  on 19.08.2015 1:07 pm

For most of us, summer conjures up the idea of vacation. Rather than thinking of vacation as only a time for leaving behind something stressful or routine, I have come to see it as an opportunity for proactively adding to my treasure chest through real life exposures. Yes, the kind we refer to in Prolonged Exposure (PE) Therapy.

Staff Perspective: What Makes a Good Metaphor in Prolonged Exposure Therapy?

By Kevin Holloway  on 22.10.2014 4:18 pm

Across multiple PE training workshops at which I’ve presented, we’ve discussed the importance of helping our patients understand various aspects of treatment such as rationale, procedures, the nature of the therapeutic relationship, using metaphors. A colleague and I recently discussed the use of metaphor in PE, and shared many of the metaphors we use in treatment.  We realized that many new PE therapists might benefit from considering a wide range of metaphors that could be used in PE treatment, so we present to you several PE metaphors for your consideration.

Staff Perspective: Live Online PE Training, Part 2

By Christopher Adams  on 14.05.2014 4:11 pm

Last Thursday and Friday, the Center for Deployment Psychology held an online training in Prolonged Exposure Therapy via Second Life. The CDP’s virtual education center played host to a group of providers from around the country as they were instructed in the methods of PE through slides, videos and interactive role-playing elements with their fellow workshop participants.

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