Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5

Weathers, Frank W.; Bovin, Michelle J.; Lee, Dong Hoon; Sloan, Denise M.; Schnurr, Paula P.; Kaloupek, Danny G.; Keane, Terence M.; Marx, Brian P.

doi:10.1037/t71324-000

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“…The LEC-5 (Weathers et al, 2013a) assesses exposure to 17 potentially traumatic events (e.g., sexual assault, motor vehicle accident, and combat). For each event, respondents are asked to indicate whether the event happened to them, they witnessed it, they learned about it, it was part of their job, they are unsure, or the event did not apply to them.…”

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Executive Control Deficits Potentiate the Effect of Maladaptive Metacognitive Beliefs on Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms

Bardeen

Fergus

2018

Front. Psychol.

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The metacognitive model and recent preliminary research suggests that metacognitive beliefs (i.e., beliefs about thinking) may be particularly important for understanding the pathogenesis of posttraumatic stress (PTS). The metacognitive model also suggests that deficits in executive control (i.e., metacognitive control) may increase the impact of metacognitive beliefs on PTS symptoms. Trauma-exposed adult participants (N = 469), recruited through an online crowdsourcing website, completed a battery of measures assessing the constructs of interest. As predicted, deficits in executive control strengthened the positive association between metacognitive beliefs and PTS symptoms. This effect was found in relation to positive (e.g., “Worrying will keep me safe”), but not negative (e.g., “My thoughts are uncontrollable”), metacognitive beliefs. Supplemental analyses, indicated that the interaction between positive metacognitive beliefs and executive control significantly predicted all PTS cluster scores (i.e., Intrusion, Cognition, Arousal, Avoidance). Taken together, results support the proposal that executive control deficits potentiate the effect of metacognitive beliefs on PTS symptoms. Intervention strategies designed to strengthen executive control (e.g., the attention training technique) may be useful in treating individuals with PTS.

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Executive Control Deficits Potentiate the Effect of Maladaptive Metacognitive Beliefs on Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms

Bardeen

Fergus

2018

Front. Psychol.

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“…The Life Events Checklist for DSM–5 (LEC-5; Weathers et al, 2013) is a self-report measure of exposure to potentially traumatic events (e.g., natural disaster, combat, sexual assault). Two items from the LEC-5 (i.e., ‘exposure to toxic substance’ and ‘severe human suffering’) were removed to reduce potential for false-positive reports (e.g., endorsement of ‘exposure to toxic substance’ by patients with psychotic-spectrum psychopathology), and two items were added (i.e., ‘childhood physical abuse’ and ‘childhood sexual abuse’).…”

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Childhood trauma and distress tolerance in a trauma-exposed acute-care psychiatric inpatient sample.

Berenz

Vujanovic²,

Rappaport

et al. 2018

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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Objective Distress tolerance (DT; the perceived or actual ability to withstand negative internal states) has emerged as a promising transdiagnostic risk factor in clinically severe populations. However, little is known about etiological factors associated with the development of DT. We hypothesized that greater levels of childhood trauma would be associated with lower perceived and behavioral DT, beyond theoretically relevant covariates. Method The current investigation evaluated several childhood trauma types (i.e., physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, physical neglect, and emotional neglect) in relation to perceived (i.e., self-report) and behavioral DT in a sample of 87 trauma-exposed adults in acute-care psychiatric inpatient treatment. Results Results of hierarchical linear regression models indicated that greater childhood physical abuse and emotional neglect were significantly associated with higher perceived DT. Greater levels of emotional abuse were associated with lower perceived DT, and greater physical neglect was associated with lower behavioral DT. Conclusions DT may be differentially influenced by different forms of childhood trauma.

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“…Additionally, the PCL-M score is a raw score, whereas the TSI-2 scores are T-scores stratified by age and sex. Thus, the two measures provide different information, and future studies might further explore this discrepancy as well as evaluate PTSD symptoms per the gold standard Clinician Administered PTSD Scale-5 (CAPS-5; Weathers et al 2013) using the new DSM-5 criteria.…”

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An Exploratory Study of Attachments and Posttraumatic Stress in Combat Veterans

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The purpose of this exploratory study was to evaluate the potential value of comparing specific attachments to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology in combat veterans with a new measure of attachments. A case series of 22 combat veterans in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center clinic completed PTSD Checklist -Military Version (PCL-M), Trauma Symptom Inventory -2nd Edition, and the Attachment and Clinical Issues Questionnaire (ACIQ) as part of a pilot study for a larger project. Descriptive statistics and Pearson correlations were used to examine the data. Although there were significant negative correlations between self-rated PTSD symptoms and avoidant (r = −0.44) and ambivalent (r = −0.55) attachment scores towards their mothers, suggesting a novel type of enmeshment, positive correlations were found between PTSD symptoms and avoidant partner attachments scores (r = 0.47). There were no significant correlations between the attachment scales to father and PTSD symptoms. The ACIQ Ambivalent Partner scale was only related to TSI-2 scales Intrusive Experiences (r = −0.44) and Defensive Avoidance (r = −0.44). An exploratory regression model using attachment variables identified from correlations and predicting PCL scores was significant (R 2 = 0.48); however, only Avoidant Partner scale contributed significant variance (β = 0.42, p = 0.024). The potency of the partner scale suggests a potential target for future research and intervention. These data point to new questions to be explored with larger samples and more sophisticated statistical techniques, and further highlighting the complexity of attachment and PTSD. Research suggests that the prevalence rate of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in combat veterans is approximately 16 % (Gates et al. 2012). Between 2004 and 2009, the Veterans Health Administration spent approximately $1.4 billion on PTSD treatment (Congressional Budget Office 2012), PTSD research expenditures by the US government were $24.5 million in 2009 (Monegain 2011), and $45 million in research funding was more recently awarded to form the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD in a joint effort by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD 2015). Despite increased research and treatment efforts related to PTSD in veterans, it remains unclear why some suffer a greater number and/or more severe PTSD symptoms than others following similar combat experiences. The relationship of attachments in significant social relationships is one area of research that has received relatively little attention in the literature. If found significant, the contribution of attachment factors to the risk for developing PTSD could provide researchers additional information with which to understand PTSD etiology, and thus inform prevention and policy. Additionally, identification of significant and maladaptive attachment factors in this population could allow clinicians to improve care of veterans by adding specific attachment issue...

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Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5

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Executive Control Deficits Potentiate the Effect of Maladaptive Metacognitive Beliefs on Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms

Executive Control Deficits Potentiate the Effect of Maladaptive Metacognitive Beliefs on Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms

Childhood trauma and distress tolerance in a trauma-exposed acute-care psychiatric inpatient sample.

An Exploratory Study of Attachments and Posttraumatic Stress in Combat Veterans

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