Final Session of PE Therapy for PTSD: Revising the Newly Organized Memory
Associate Vice-Chair of Clinical Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
Director, Emory Healthcare Veterans Program
Director, Emory Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program
Paul A. Janssen Chair in Neuropsychopharmacology
Key Points
- The last session incorporates imaginal exposure to the entire memory.
- Usually, the patient recounts the entire memory 1 time.
- Check on the previous start and end points for the entire memory.
- If the patient is doing fine, there’s no need to probe.
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Transcript
Welcome to this video talking about the outline for the final session.
Your final session may be session 9. It may be session 12. Whenever it is, we recommend—if you can—put aside two hours for it. That will give you enough time to get everything accomplished.
Foa, E., Hembree, E. A., Rothbaum, B. O., & Rauch, S. (2019). Prolonged exposure therapy for PTSD: Emotional processing of traumatic experiences - Therapist guide (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.,Rothbaum, B. O., Foa, E., Hembree, E. A., & Rauch, S. (2019). Reclaiming your life from a traumatic experience: Client workbook (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.
As usual, you’re going to review homework. You will review the in vivo exposure homework. You’ll review the imaginal exposure homework. Find out how everything is going. You will conduct the imaginal exposure, but in the final session, it will be of the entire memory. You’ll process the imaginal exposure and talk a lot about how their perception of the traumatic event has changed.
Foa, E., Hembree, E. A., Rothbaum, B. O., & Rauch, S. (2019). Prolonged exposure therapy for PTSD: Emotional processing of traumatic experiences - Therapist guide (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.,Rothbaum, B. O., Foa, E., Hembree, E. A., & Rauch, S. (2019). Reclaiming your life from a traumatic experience: Client workbook (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.
