Memory Reconsolidation Therapy for Police Officers with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Kerswell, Nicholas L.; Strodl, Esben; Hawkins, Deanne; Johnson, Luke R.

doi:10.1007/s11896-020-09363-5

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“…The presence of a diagnosed PTSD was among the inclusion criteria for participating in four studies. Three of them included PSP who met Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders criteria for PTSD (Alghamdi et al, 2015; Bryant et al, 2018; Kerswell et al, 2020). The other study included participants with sub-threshold PTSD (Jung et al, 2016).…”

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“…The other study included participants with sub-threshold PTSD (Jung et al, 2016). PSP with substance dependence or with imminent plans of suicide were excluded from two studies (Bryant et al, 2018; Kerswell et al, 2020). The presence of diagnosable mental disorders was not among the inclusion or exclusion criteria of the other research protocols…”

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“…Five studies dealt with the treatment of PSP with diagnosable PTSD. Trauma-focused psychotherapy methods included memory reconsolidation therapy (Kerswell et al, 2020), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR; Jung et al, 2016), narrative exposure therapy (Alghamdi et al, 2015), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT; Bryant et al, 2018; Gramlich & Neer, 2018), and brief eclectic psychotherapy (i.e., a combination of CBT and psychodynamic; Smid et al, 2018).…”

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“…An elevated risk of suicide was an exclusion criterion in two studies (Bryant et al, 2018; Kerswell et al, 2020). Five out of the 126 potential participants were excluded for this reason in the Bryant et al, (2018) RCT on CBT.…”

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Reducing the impacts of exposure to potentially traumatic events on the mental health of public safety personnel: A rapid systematic scoping review.

Corthésy-Blondin¹,

Genest²,

Dargis³

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Psychological Services

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Police, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians and paramedics are frequently exposed to potentially traumatic events (PTE) in their work as public safety personnel (PSP). PTE are a risk factor for posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and suicidal ideation. This systematic rapid scoping review summarizes evaluation research on psychosocial interventions to reduce the negative consequences of exposure to work-related PTE on the mental health of PSP. Articles were identified using PubMed and PsycInfo. Publications from January 1, 2013, to December 1, 2020, were retained because the research published before 2013 was covered by other reviews. We identified 601 unique documents; 30 met preliminary eligibility criteria; and 18 were retained. Most studies were limited to police officers and firefighters. Participants exposed to prevention measures reported improvements of symptoms of depression, burnout, anxiety, sleep problems, and well-being. Most articles identified factors that may hinder or facilitate the use of program components. Studies on ways to support PSP recently affected by a PTE are lacking. There are little data on the efficacy of prevention programs in reducing the prevalence of mental disorders associated with PTE. More studies should focus on identifying participant characteristics and intervention components that influence program use, adherence, and efficacy. Realistic evaluations combined with participatory research could help address important knowledge gaps.

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“…Subsequently it became widely assumed among researchers that there exists an intrinsic requirement for a time delay in order to induce target memory destabilization. For example, the authors of one study [182] wrote that their clinical protocol "incorporates memory recall followed by a wait period to make memories labile for modification" (p. 112). Other researchers anticipating clinical application [55] likewise reasoned (p. 4), "A modified version of an exposure-based CBT protocol based on memory reconsolidation might involve reminding patients of why they are there when they first arrive at the clinician's office (i.e., reminder cue), then establishing a safe and positive rapport for approximately 10 minutes (i.e., waiting for reconsolidation window) before initiating desensitization with exposure therapy.…”

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Reconsolidation behavioral updating of human emotional memory: A comprehensive review and unified analysis of successes, replication failures, and clinical translation

Ecker¹

2021

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The annulment of a human emotional memory through reconsolidation behavioral updating has been documented in over twenty laboratory studies since the first such report in 2010. However, fourteen studies have reported non-replication, the cause(s) of which remain unclear. This review examines all successful and unsuccessful studies in detail, in an attempt to identify (a) the specific probable causes of non-replication and (b) how clinical translation might optimally be designed. For analyzing non-replications, a set of criteria is defined for principled identification of specific moments of prediction error (PE) in experimental procedures, including latent cause transitions, based on a preponderance of empirical evidence. A previously overlooked element of experimental procedure is in that way identified as being potentially decisive, and a unified, testable explanation is proposed for behavioral updating successes and failures in terms of the presence or absence of a PE experience. That in turn allows successful studies to be compared for the internal experiences induced in subjects, rather than compared for their external procedures, revealing an invariant set of three experiences shared by all successful updating studies despite their diverse procedures. Clinical translation, defined as replication of those experiences, not any particular procedure, is illustrated by an actual case, one of many published cases that have documented prompt transformational change produced by that specific methodology, suggesting memory reconsolidation as the mechanism of change. Lastly, the core empirical findings of successful reconsolidation updating studies are compared with previously proposed frameworks of memory reconsolidation in psychotherapy, exposing significant departures from scientific fidelity.

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Memory reconsolidation therapy for comorbid bulimia nervosa and traumatic memories: a case series study

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Strodl

Kitamura

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Clinical Psychologist

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Memory Reconsolidation Therapy for Police Officers with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Cited by 6 publications

References 47 publications

Reducing the impacts of exposure to potentially traumatic events on the mental health of public safety personnel: A rapid systematic scoping review.

Reducing the impacts of exposure to potentially traumatic events on the mental health of public safety personnel: A rapid systematic scoping review.

Reconsolidation behavioral updating of human emotional memory: A comprehensive review and unified analysis of successes, replication failures, and clinical translation

Memory reconsolidation therapy for comorbid bulimia nervosa and traumatic memories: a case series study

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