Edna Foa, an Israeli American psychologist who pressed her field – and her patients – to more directly confront fear and anxiety, revolutionizing the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, died ...

I’ve been a little skeptical about using prolonged exposure therapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. Revisiting a trauma over and over again in order to become habituated to it seems fine in ...

Human beings are hardwired to fear things — the lion in the grass, the assailant in the alley — and if one of those fears gets realized, we may never settle down again. The pain associated with that ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder affects nearly 8 million adults in any given year, federal statistics show. Fortunately, clinical research has identified certain psychological interventions that ...

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(HealthDay News) – Prolonged exposure therapy is superior to supportive counseling in adolescent girls with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to sexual abuse, according to research ...

In study after study, several treatments have been shown to work in treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. One of them, an approach called “prolonged exposure therapy,” is effective about 80 percent ...