Internal medicine

Cognitive processing therapy

Veterans Affairs

Psychiatry

Physical therapy

Randomized controlled trial

Psychological intervention

Exposure therapy

Cognitive behavioral therapy

Cognitive therapy

Anxiety

Medicine

JAMA Psychiatry

Written exposure therapy (WET), a 5-session intervention, has been shown to efficaciously treat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, this treatment has not yet been directly compared with a first-line PTSD treatment such as cognitive processing therapy (CPT).

A Brief Exposure-Based Treatment vs Cognitive Processing Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Noninferiority Clinical Trial