Pilot study of Cognitive Processing Therapy for young people with comorbid Substance Use and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders in residential substance use treatment

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Mental Health - Addiction; Substance Use Disorder; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Mental Health - Other mental health disorders

• Registration Number: ACTRN12621000296831
• Lead Sponsor: The University of Queensland

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2021-03-18
• Study Completion: 2021-10-21
• Last Update Posted: 28 February 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 33

Inclusion Criteria

Clients attending Lives Lived Well services with a provisional DSM-5 Diagnosis of PTSD on the PTSD Checklist (PCL-5) may be offered CPT (a score of 31+ or 26+ for sub-threshold symptoms). The PCL-5 is a measure used to assess PTSD symptomatology based on the DSM-5 criteria. This requires the client to need at least: 1 B item (questions 1-5), 1 C item (questions 6-7), 2 D items (questions 8-14), 2 E items (questions 15-20) on the PCL-5.

Exclusion Criteria

Following CPT protocol recommendations (Resick et al., 2016), participants will be excluded from therapy if they meet any of the following:
a) non-fluent in English
b) acutely suicidal
c) current diagnosis of schizophrenia, currently manic bipolar, or intellectual disability
d) Experienced a trauma that had occurred before the age of three (as there is an inability to remember the trauma)

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified