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2017

Psychotherapy

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Making Sense Of Missing Sessions: Attendance Patterns In Posttraumatic Stress Disorder And Substance Use Disorder Treatments, Margaret Rauen Sep 2017

Making Sense Of Missing Sessions: Attendance Patterns In Posttraumatic Stress Disorder And Substance Use Disorder Treatments, Margaret Rauen

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The current study examined the diverse ways individuals with co-occurring Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Substance Use Disorders (PTSD-SUD) attend treatment. The study was a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial for PTSD-SUD (Ruglass et al., 2017), in which participants meeting criteria for both PTSD and SUD (N=82) were randomized to either Concurrent Treatment of PTSD and SUD using Prolonged Exposure (COPE: n=39) or Relapse Prevention Therapy (RPT: n=43). Latent class growth analysis (Muthén & Muthén, 2000) revealed three distinct classes of attendance as the model of best fit. Diagnostic, but not demographic, variables were significantly associated with treatment attendance …