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September 28, 2020
In this “In Focus Texas” segment, Alan Peterson, PhD, professor of psychiatry and director of our national STRONG STAR PTSD consortium and Consortium to Alleviate PTSD research programs based in the Department of Psychiatry, was interviewed about a two-day weekend treatment for military-related PTSD that can also improve relationships of military couples. Watch the story.
August 31, 2020
This story highlights the new Consortium to Alleviate PTSD (CAP) research study that’s part of Dr. Alan Peterson’s PTSD research group. The newly published study was conducted with veterans and military members in Central and South Texas. The study shows that condensing months of weekly therapy into one weekend could help improve patient, partner and […]
August 26, 2020
Alan Peterson, PhD, director of the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD (CAP) in the Department of Psychiatry, is quoted in this story about a new study conducted through CAP that shows that a new shortened format of therapy for couples, in which one person is a military member or veteran with military-associated PTSD, is just as […]
August 25, 2020
The pilot study offered a condensed version of cognitive-behavioral conjoint therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (CBCT for PTSD) to military and veteran couples through the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD (CAP).
July 6, 2020
For people with PTSD, fireworks can cause serious anxiety, especially if they’re unexpected. Veterans, for example, may have a strong reaction “to fireworks, because it reminds them of explosions that have occurred in the battlefield,” said Alan Peterson, PhD, professor and chief of the division of behavioral medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
April 8, 2020
Dr. Alan Peterson, Psychiatry/STRONG STAR PTSD consortium, is quoted in the San Antonio Express-News about a significant increase this year in military-related suicides, citing that it isn’t clear if the coronavirus pandemic has played a role in the 2020 death.