Prospective Cohort Study of Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) for Treatment of Military Psychological Trauma

"The ART protocol will be delivered in 2-5 sessions. Imaginal Exposure (IE) will be used whereby service members and veterans will be asked to recall (verbally or non-verbally) details of the traumatic event(s) while focusing their attention on physiological sensations, thoughts, and emotions. This short period of exposure to the memory will be followed by identification and diminishment of the emergence of any uncomfortable emotional or somatic symptoms. Imagery Rescripting (IR) will be used to change (replace) negative traumatic images to positive images. The service member/veteran will imagine and play out an affectively-driven solution to change sensory components of the memory, as if they were the director of the movie of the memory they are working on."