How do licensed psychotherapists in Germany feel about treating patients with posttraumatic stress symptoms? – an experimental study based on case vignettes

Autor: Gossmann, Katharina, Eilers, Rebekka, Rosner, Rita, Barke, Antonia
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Adult
trastorno de estrés postraumático
Adolescent
Attitude of Health Personnel
治疗准备
RC435-571
externalizing and internalizing post-traumatic stress symptoms
治疗师特征
síntomas de estrés postraumático externalizantes e internalizantes
behavioral disciplines and activities
barreras de tratamiento
Stress Disorders
Post-Traumatic
Psychotherapists
psicoterapeutas licenciados
Germany
Humans
Child
患者特征
treatment barriers
características de los terapeutas
Psychiatry
patients’ characteristics
Basic Research Article
therapists’ characteristics
treatment readiness
características de los pacientes
外化和内化创伤后应激症状
licenced psychotherapists
posttraumatic stress disorder
创伤后应激障碍
disposición a tratamiento
执业心理治疗师
Clinical Competence
Licensure
治疗障碍
Research Article
Zdroj: European Journal of Psychotraumatology, Vol 12, Iss 1 (2021)
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
article-version (VoR) Version of Record
ISSN: 2000-8066
Popis: Background Previous research indicates that not all children, adolescents and adults suffering from PTSD receive psychotherapy and if they do, trauma is not always considered during therapy. One reason for this undertreatment might be a limited readiness of licenced psychotherapists (LPTs) to treat patients who have experienced a trauma and thus suffer from PTSD symptoms. Objective The aim of this study is to explore the association between the readiness of LPTs to treat patients with PTSD symptoms and different patients’ and therapists’ characteristics. Method We used case vignettes to assess the readiness of LPTs in Germany in a nationwide online survey (N = 768). The vignettes described patients with PTSD and were adapted to the age group mainly treated by the therapists (children/adolescents vs. adults). The patients’ characteristics in the otherwise identical vignettes were randomized for patient gender (female vs. male) and symptom cluster (internalizing vs. externalizing). Rating scales were used to assess readiness. Additionally, therapists’ characteristics (age, trauma-specific training, perceived fears/doubts, and objective barriers to treating the vignette patient) were assessed. Results The patients’ characteristics did not influence the treatment readiness of the LPTs. Regarding therapists’ characteristics, LPTs working mainly with children and adolescents, and those who had completed trauma-specific training reported a higher readiness to treat the vignette patient. Conclusions Regarding the treatment of patients suffering from PTSD symptoms of different ages, our study indicated that the assessed therapists’ characteristics were more relevant for the treatment readiness of LPTs than the patients’ characteristics of age or symptom type.
HIGHLIGHTS In this nationwide study based on randomly presented case vignettes, therapists’ characteristics like trauma-specific training or fears/doubt were more relevant for the readiness of licenced psychotherapists to treat patients with PTSD symptoms than patients’ characteristics.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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