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Hotspots in Trauma Memories and Their Relationship to Successful Trauma‐Focused Psychotherapy: A Pilot Study

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Traumatic Stress, January 2013
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Title
Hotspots in Trauma Memories and Their Relationship to Successful Trauma‐Focused Psychotherapy: A Pilot Study
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Journal of Traumatic Stress, January 2013
DOI 10.1002/jts.21771
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Mirjam J. Nijdam, Melanie A. M. Baas, Miranda Olff, Berthold P. R. Gersons

Abstract

Imaginal exposure is an essential element of trauma-focused psychotherapies for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Exposure should in particular focus on the "hotspots," the parts of trauma memories that cause high levels of emotional distress which are often reexperienced. Our aim was to investigate whether differences in the focus on hotspots differentiate between successful and unsuccessful trauma-focused psychotherapies. As part of a randomized trial, 45 PTSD patients completed brief eclectic psychotherapy for PTSD. We retrospectively assessed audio recordings of therapy sessions of 20 patients. Frequency of hotspots and the associated emotions, cognitions, and characteristics were compared for the most successful (n = 10) versus the least successful (n = 10) treatments. The mean number of unique hotspots per patient was 3.20, and this number did not differ between successful and unsuccessful treatments. In successful treatments, however, hotspots were more frequently addressed (r = .48), and they were accompanied by more characteristics of hotspots (r = .39), such as an audible change in affect, indicating medium- to large-sized effects. Repeatedly focusing on hotspots and looking for associated characteristics of hotspots may help clinicians to enhance the efficacy of imaginal exposure for patients who would otherwise show insufficient response to treatment.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 1%
Norway 1 1%
Unknown 67 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 19%
Student > Master 8 12%
Researcher 7 10%
Other 6 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Other 16 23%
Unknown 14 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 29 42%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 7%
Neuroscience 3 4%
Social Sciences 3 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 21 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 June 2013.
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#4,335,241
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#471
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#42,364
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Traumatic Stress
#5
of 21 outputs
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