scholarly journals PET+EMDR+VR to Reduce PTSD Symptoms

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. p39
Author(s):  
Mingju Zhang

As Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome become ubiquitous in our daily life. Under overwhelming stress, people are more prone to PTSD since they live under stress and frequently come to their limits of sentimental optimal level, and the goal of this paper is to ameliorate these commonplaces in PTSD because it becomes ubiquitous. I hope to expound on this by going through various universal methods, which can guarantee therapists to cover optimal numbers of PTSD patients and benefit larger audiences. While Therapist use prolonged exposure therapy to desensitize patients and EMDR can relax patients during each treatment. Latest VR technology and Situated AI progression will resolve short-come in current PTSD treatments. Research is made and an ideal prototype will be presented with detailed procedure in this paper.

Author(s):  
Zahra Foroghi ◽  
Fatemeh Rezaei ◽  
Fazlolah Mirderikvand

Introduction: Posttraumatic stress disorder is a set of clinical symptoms that occurs following exposure to life-threatening events, and affects a variety of psychological variables. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of prolonged exposure therapy on social support and the severity of symptoms in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, post-test and a two-month follow-up design and a control group. Using stratified sampling method, 30 patients (15 subjects in each group) with post-traumatic stress disorder referred to Farabi Psychiatric Clinic in Kermanshah City selected and they were randomly assigned. The Mean age of the sample group was 31.9.The study inclusion criteria was having PTSD based on clinical interview. The study exclusion criteria included having psychosis symptoms, drug addiction. The data were collected by structured clinical interview (SCID-I), social support scale (MOS), and the fifth edition of the post-traumatic stress disorder index (PCL-5). Data were analyzed by repeated measures ANOVA test. Results: The results showed that prolonged exposure therapy was significantly effective in increasing social support (F=2/66, P<0/01) and reducing the severity of symptoms (F=42/19, P<0/01) among the patients with post-traumatic stress disorder. Conclusion: These results indicate that prolonged exposure therapy can alleviate the symptoms of the patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.


Author(s):  
Lily A. Brown ◽  
David Yusko ◽  
Hallie Tannahill ◽  
Edna B. Foa

This chapter presents an overview of prolonged exposure therapy (PE), a highly efficacious and effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). First, emotional processing theory is reviewed, which provides the theoretical basis for PE and the key mechanisms underlying PTSD symptom reduction. Next, a synthesis of the robust evidence for the efficacy and effectiveness of PE is provided. The chapter reviews evidence that in addition to ameliorating PTSD symptoms, PE reduces secondary symptoms such as depression, suicidal ideation, anger, and substance use disorders. The chapter describes evidence supporting the extension of PE with unique samples, including individuals with psychosis, persons with self-injurious behavior, and war veterans. The chapter concludes with a review of the status of PE dissemination and implementation efforts.


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