UCLA Couples Counseling for Combat Veterans



Status:Completed
Conditions:Psychiatric
Therapuetic Areas:Psychiatry / Psychology
Healthy:No
Age Range:18 - Any
Updated:4/2/2016
Start Date:January 2012
End Date:November 2013
Contact:Lina Berrio, MPH
Email:welcomebackveteransUCLA@gmail.com
Phone:310-702-3991

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Trial Summary
Trial Overview
Inclusion Criteria

UCLA Welcome Back Veterans Family Resilience Center Couples Counseling for Combat Veterans

A pilot intervention of an existing intervention adapted for the returning warfighter
population: a couples treatment for PTSD, Structured Approach Therapy (SAT), which
emphasizes reducing the PTSD avoidance/numbing symptoms that are corrosive in families.


Inclusion Criteria:

- OIF/OEF/ OND veteran with at least one deployment

- In a cohabitating relationship for 6 months or longer

- Cohabitating 50% of the time or more

- Diagnosed with PTSD or meets the diagnosis criteria for PTSD as related to deployment
experience (CAPS)

- Ability to make weekly appointments

- Willingness to commit to change

Exclusion Criteria:

- Receiving an evidence-based treatment for PTSD within the past 6 months

- Receiving couples therapy within the last 6 months

- Moderate or excessive physical violence within the past 3 months (CTS)

- Alcohol/substance dependence (SCID)

- Known domestic violence/abuse (CTS)

- Symptoms of psychosis within the past 3 months

- Unstable psychiatric medicine usage or on regimen less than 3 months
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