Imagery Rescripting as a stand-alone treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse: A randomized controlled trial

Raabe, Sandra; Ehring, Thomas; Marquenie, Loes A.; Arntz, Arnoud; Kindt, Merel

doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101769

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“…This is in concurrence with the supposed mechanism of IMRS: change of meaning (i.e., affective, and cognitive meanings) of trauma representation [3]. Our finding that emotion regulation improves is in line with Raabe et al [46] who showed that IMRS also had an effect on emotion regulation. This gives rise to the hypothesis that changing the meaning of traumatic experiences, in uED patients, may help them regulate emotions.…”

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Treating PTSD with Imagery Rescripting in underweight eating disorder patients: a multiple baseline case series study

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Background Eating disorder patients with posttraumatic stress disorder have worse treatment results regarding their eating disorder than patients without posttraumatic stress disorder. Many eating disorder patients with co-morbid posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms are not treated for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms during an underweight state. We propose that treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder is possible for underweight patients and that their trauma symptoms decrease with the use of Imagery Rescripting. We also investigated whether treatment of trauma influences eating disorder pathology in general and the process of weight gain specifically. Method Ten patients in clinical treatment (BMI 14–16.5) participated. A multiple baseline design was used, with baseline varying from 6 to 10 weeks, a 6-week treatment phase, a 3-week follow-up period and a 3-month follow-up measurement. Data were analysed with mixed regression. Results Evidence was found that Imagery Rescripting had strong positive effects on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms without interfering with eating disorder treatment. Positive effects were also found on a range of secondary emotional and cognitive measures. Conclusion Imagery Rescripting of traumatic memories is a possible and safe intervention for underweight eating disorder patients. It also had positive clinical effects. Trial registration Netherlands trial register (NTR) Trial NL5906 (NTR6094). Date of registration 09/23/2016. https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/5906.

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confidence: 92%

Treating PTSD with Imagery Rescripting in underweight eating disorder patients: a multiple baseline case series study

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“…The authors suggest that the very risk for the patient is not being exposed to an effective therapy. Another recent study showed how comparing a therapy for PTSD which directly started with guided imagery and rescripting was as effective and safe as one which first used a stabilization phase and then guided imagery (Raabe et al, 2022). In short, the exposure only therapy was safe and effective but also faster.…”

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“…The attitude of many psychotherapy trainers is to teach trainees to be highly careful, pay a prolonged attention to the therapy relationship and to stabilizing patients before introducing experiential work which is usually highly arousing. Recently, it has been challenged the view that patients need to be guided through the therapy experience in a way that means they do not enter states of extremely high or low arousal, too low patients are unable to acquire and process effectively new information (Raabe et al, 2022).…”

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The interplay between therapeutic relationship and therapeutic technique: “It takes two to tango”

Matos

Dimaggio

2023

J Clin Psychol

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The idea that the therapeutic relationship is at the core of psychotherapy is shared by most therapeutic approaches.Also, an increasing variety of therapeutic approaches, consider experiential techniques as central tools to promote effective therapeutic change. Commonly, it is argued that the creation of a positive, empathic, safe, and solid therapeutic alliance should be a prerequisite for administering these techniques. However, recent evidence is beginning to challenge this cautious stance showing that the introduction of experiential work early in therapy can be safe and effective. So, the quality of the therapeutic relationship may either facilitate or hinder the use of experiential techniques, but the use of these techniques may also strengthen or cause ruptures in the therapeutic alliance. So how do we balance the attention to the therapeutic relationship and the use of active, emotionally arousing techniques? In this paper, we present an issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session exploring the complex interplay between therapeutic relationship and experiential practices in light of different psychotherapeutic approaches. We do so by first providing an initial overview of the topic. Next, we introduce the five papers of the issue along with some thoughts on how authors from diverse psychotherapeutic orientations contributed to illustrate and reflect on this multifaceted "dance" between therapeutic relationship and techniques.

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“…ImRs für PTBS zeigte sich in 3 RCTs [12,21,22] und 3 unkontrollierten Studien [23,24,25] effektiv in Bezug auf die Reduktion der PTBS-Symptomatik. Die meiste Evidenz liegt bislang für Patient*innen mit Traumatisierung in Kindheit oder Jugend vor [21,22,24]. In einem ersten RCT (N = 69) wurde PE mit einer Kombination aus PE und ImRs verglichen.…”

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