ACT for PTSD: Comorbidity, Childhood Trauma, and Skills Training
Booz Allen
Department of Veterans Affairs
Yale University
University of Nevada, Reno
Key Points
- Both PTSD and substance use problems can be considered the result of excessive efforts at avoidance.
- ACT can be used to treat those two types of problems at the same time.
- Not all avoidance is problematic.
- Only the individual can make the changes needed to move life forward in the present.
