Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Learn about Written Exposure Therapy (WET), a 5 session treatment for PTSD and the background research examining the necessary and sufficient components of successful PTSD treatment led to the development of WET.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
4:14 Why do we need this treatment?
6:38 Identifying alternative approaches
8:58 Written exposure procedure
11:05 Expressive writing and PTSD, research findings
23:20 Altering Expressive Writing for PTSD
26:43 Empirical support for writing and PTSD
38:07 Future directions
44:30 Q&A