BALTIMORE -- Women who were sexually abused as children appear to fare no better with trauma-focused group therapy than with present-focused group therapy in improving behaviors associated with risk for HIV infection, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
In trauma-focused group therapy (TFGT), the goals are to link the survivor's symptoms with the past environment, to reduce stress by retrieving and reinterpreting memories and events that led to the symptoms, and to increase emotional processing for exposure desensitization.
Present-focused group therapy (PFGT), however, links survivor ...