CBT for PTSD in a Community Sample with Community Therapists

Following a car bombing in Northern Ireland, community clinicians with limited prior training in CBT were trained to provide CBT for PTSD and outcome data was collected on 91 consecutive patients seeking treatment for PTSD as a result of the bombing. Treatment varied on the basis of patient needs with a range of 2-73 sessions and a median of 8 sessions. Rates of improvement averaged more than 65% on the Post-trauma Diagnosis Scale. (This compares favorably with the results of carefully controlled outcome studies.)

Gillespie, K., Duffy, M. Hackmann, A., & Clark, D. M. (2002). Community based cognitive therapy in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder following the Omagh bomb. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 40, 345-357.

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