@article{ref1,
title="The promise of compassion-based therapy as a novel intervention for adolescent PTSD",
journal="Journal of affective disorders reports",
year="2024",
author="Brinckman, Bridget and Alfaro, Elena and Wooten, William and Herringa, Ryan",
volume="15",
number="",
pages="e100694-e100694",
abstract="In this review, we summarize current evidence for compassion-based approaches for PTSD and the potential for their application to the adolescent PTSD population. Exposure to traumatic events is common in adolescence and PTSD remains a public health crisis. Accessibility, willingness, and engagement are significant barriers to established treatments for PTSD, with attrition rates as high as 50 %. Compassion-based therapies provide potential solutions to treatment obstacles by providing a non-threatening, transdiagnostic option unburdened by aspects of current trauma treatment which may be associated with treatment resistance (e.g., exposure, trauma narrative, induction of fear). Compassion-based approaches are intuitive for trauma treatment, as compassion activates the self-soothing system, thereby disarming the fear system and promoting affect regulation. Compassion-based treatments demonstrate reductions across a substantial range of PTSD symptoms in adults, however, in adolescents extant literature is sparse, with cross-sectional studies suggesting self-compassion is inversely associated with trauma-related psychopathology. Understanding the impact of compassion-based approaches on adolescent PTSD is warranted as the adolescent developmental period may be a particularly opportune time for this approach. Evaluation of the impact of compassion-based treatment on adolescent PTSD in clinical populations via randomized-controlled studies and comparison of its relative efficacy to current evidence-based practices is warranted.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2666-9153",
doi="10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100694",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100694"
}