Citation

Shipherd JC, Beck JG, Hamblen JL, Lackner JM, Freeman JB. J. Trauma. Stress 2003; 16(5): 451-457.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, SUNY-Buffalo, New York, USA. jillian.shipherd@med.va.gov

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1023/A:1025754310462

PMID

14584629

Abstract

Manualized treatments have become popular, despite concern about their use when comorbid diagnoses are present. In this report, the efficacy of manualized posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment was examined in the presence of chronic pain. Additionally, the effect of PTSD treatment on chronic pain and additional psychiatric diagnoses was explored. Six female patients with both PTSD and chronic pain following motor vehicle accidents were treated for PTSD using a multiple baseline design. The results indicate that manualized treatment for PTSD was effective in reducing PTSD symptoms in these patients. Although there were no changes in subjective pain, there were pain-related functional improvements and reductions in other psychiatric diagnoses for the majority of patients.

Language: en