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The Association of VA Social Workers is proud to select Myrna Molinari, LCSW from West Palm Beach VAMC. as the AVASW Social Worker of the 2nd Quarter, 2016. She is trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy which she indicated is the fastest and most effective form of trauma therapy. Ms. Molinari will be among four AVASW […]

Tampa, FLA (July 6, 2016) – The University of South Florida College of Public Health has been awarded a contract with the U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School, Department of Behavioral Health (AMEDDC&S), to train military mental health clinicians in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), an emerging evidence-based treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and […]

Published by the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps Abstract Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disabling trauma and stress-related disorder that may occur after a person experiences a traumatic event, and evokes a combination of intrusion and avoidance symptoms, negative alterations in cognitions and mood, and alterations in arousal and reactivity. Accelerated resolution therapy […]

WUSF Public Media | Bobbie O’Brien Studies show that only about half of the veterans who need mental health care seek treatment. And of those who get care – many drop-out before treatment is complete. “So, we’re only reaching a third of people ultimately who need the treatment,” said retired Army Col. Dr. Charles Hoge. […]

Article by Charles W. Hoge, MD and July Lies, MSc | Federal Practitioner Diagnostic discordance between posttraumatic stress disorder definitions, treatment dropout rates, comorbidities, and varying policy approaches leave VA and DoD clinicians with unique concerns in providing effective treatment for many postwar health problems. Read Article (PDF) PTSDArticle_Hoge_Lies_FederalPractitioner_April2015

The USF College of Nursing leads research on a novel technique to alleviate veterans’ symptoms of combat-related and military sexual trauma.  By Saundra AmrheinOn a recent spring morning, Artricia James-Heard walked into the office of a therapist trained in an innovative technique being studied by researchers at the University of South Florida. Upon entering, James-Heard, […]

Accelerated Resolution Therapy for treatment of pain secondary to symptons of combat-related post traumatic stress disorder (2014) PDF Document