Treating low-income and African-American women with posttraumatic stress disorder: A case series

摘要: The present uncontrolled case series was designed to examine the feasibility of prolonged exposure (PE) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with low-income and African-American women. Five 10 eligible women completed PE showed significant improvements in symptoms PTSD, general anxiety, depression. Clinical observations suggest that addition interventions aimed at improving interpersonal problems might lead a more complete recovery this population complex trauma psychiatric histories priming intervention focused on teaching affect-regulation skills enhance effectiveness PE. removal structural barriers (e.g., lack transportation child care) appears be necessary order boost benefits traditional treatment disadvantaged