BACKGROUND: Although there are effective treatments for @entity1005 ( @entity1005 ), there is little research on treatments with non-cognitive-behavioural backgrounds, such as gestalt therapy. We tested an integrative gestalt-derived intervention, dialogical exposure therapy (DET), against an established cognitive-behavioural treatment (cognitive processing therapy, @entity1191 ) for possible differential effects in terms of symptomatic outcome and drop-out rates. METHODS: We randomized 141 treatment-seeking individuals with a diagnosis of @entity1005 to receive either DET or @entity1191 . Therapy length in both treatments was flexible with a maximum duration of 24 sessions. RESULTS: Dropout rates were 12.2% in DET and 14.9% in @entity1191 . @entity1 in both conditions achieved significant and large reductions in @entity1005 symptoms (Impact of Event Scale - Revised; Hedges' g = 1.14 for DET and d = 1.57 for @entity1191 ) which were largely stable at the 6-month follow-up. At the posttreatment assessment, @entity1191 performed statistically better than DET on symptom and cognition measures. For several outcome measures, younger @entity1 profited better from @entity1191 than older ones, while there was no age effect for DET. CONCLUSIONS: Our results indicate that DET merits further research and may be an alternative to established treatments for @entity1005 . It remains to be seen whether DET confers advantages in areas of functioning beyond @entity1005 symptoms.

A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of Dialogical Exposure Therapy versus Cognitive Processing Therapy for Adult Outpatients Suffering from XXXX after Type I Trauma in Adulthood.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Patients', 'patients'] @entity1191 :: ('CHEBI:27656', 'Chemical') :: ['CPT'] @entity1005 :: ('MESH:D013313', 'Disease') :: ['posttraumatic stress disorder', 'PTSD']
@entity1005 :: (MESH:D013313,Disease) :: ['PTSD']
