@article{ref1,
title="Treatment outcome of psychodynamic trauma therapy in an inpatient setting",
journal="Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Österreichischer Nervenärzte und Psychiater",
year="2008",
author="Lampe, Astrid and Mitmansgruber, Horst and Gast, Ursula and Schüssler, Gerhard and Reddemann, Luise",
volume="22",
number="3",
pages="189-197",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Chronic traumatization with the beginning in childhood may result in a number of additional problems not included in the diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The efficacy of a three-stage psychodynamically oriented inpatient treatment program (PITT) and the role of chronic childhood threat on treatment outcome was investigated. METHODS: A six-week treatment group of 84 inpatients were compared with 43 wait-list controls with &quot;treatment as usual&quot; (outpatient psychotherapy or psychiatric treatment in the meanwhile). Using measures on PTSD, dissociation, depression, selfsoothing, anxiety and somatization, assessments were made at admission, at discharge and 6 months postdischarge. Assessments for the outpatient control group were made at comparable time spans. RESULTS: In the treatment group significant improvements emerged on all investigated parameters (depression, intrusion, avoidance, anxiety, somatization, and self-soothing) from baseline to discharge, many of which could be maintained over a period for 6 months. PITT especially supports the stabilization of patients with experiences of childhood chronic threat and insecure attachment. Gains in depression, anxiety, somatization, and self-soothing were also significant in comparison to the control group. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that PITT offered on an inpatient basis is an effective treatment for severely traumatized patients that gives impetus to change which should be supplemented with further trauma-specific outpatient therapy to stabilize gains.<p /><p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0948-6259",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}