TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Written exposure therapy for suicide in a psychiatric inpatient unit: a case series
JO  - Cognitive and behavioral practice
A1  - Tyler, Hannah
A1  - Fina, Brooke A.
A1  - Marx, Brian P.
A1  - Young-McCaughan, Stacey
A1  - Sloan, Denise M.
A1  - Kaplan, Alexander M.
A1  - Green, Vanessa R.
A1  - Blankenship, Abby
A1  - Bryan, Craig J.
A1  - Peterson, Alan L.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at an elevated risk of suicide. For patients hospitalized for suicide risk, psychosocial treatment and stabilization are routinely offered; however, the availability of evidence-based, manualized therapeutic interventions for PTSD is sparse. Typically, the short duration of hospitalization makes it difficult to accommodate evidence-based, trauma-focused treatments. This article presents the clinical course of four active-duty service members with PTSD who were hospitalized in a psychiatric inpatient unit for acute suicide risk and treated with Written Exposure Therapy for Suicide (WET-S). WET-S is a brief, five-session therapy based upon Written Exposure Therapy and augmented with Crisis Response Planning for Suicide Prevention. Both posttraumatic stress symptoms and suicidal ideation were reduced from pre- to posttreatment for three of the four patients treated. WET-S shows promise as a manualized therapeutic intervention that can be delivered on an inpatient psychiatric unit.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1077-7229
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpra.2021.06.011
ID  - ref1
ER  -