Citation

Wagner AW, Rizvi SL, Harned MS. J. Trauma. Stress 2007; 20(4): 391-400.

Affiliation

Portland VA Medical Center, Portland, OR, USA. amy.wagner@va.gov

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/jts.20268

PMID

17721961

Abstract

In this article, the authors take the perspective that effective treatment of complex trauma-related problems requires, in the absence of empirically supported treatments, a reliance on theory, idiographic assessment, and empirically supported principles of change. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT; M. M. Linehan, 1993) is used to demonstrate the applicability of this approach to the treatment of multiproblem, heterogeneous populations in general. Two case studies are presented that highlight the utility of DBT principles to complex trauma-related problems specifically.

Language: en