Active-Duty Military Find PTSD Relief Through Individual Cognitive Therapy (VIDEO)

Duke University Medical Center

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Although both group and individual therapy can ease post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in active-duty military service members, individual therapy relieved PTSD symptoms better and quicker, according to a study led by Patricia Resick, Ph.D., of the Duke University School of Medicine. The randomized clinical trial is the largest to date to examine an evidence-based treatment for active-duty military service members, with 268 participants from the US Army's Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas. Findings will be published Nov. 23 in JAMA Psychiatry.

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