Home-Delivered Attention Control Treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

A home-delivered version of ACT will be administered in this study. ACT will be comprised of 8 sessions with a variation of the dot-probe task in which the target probe replaces the neutral and threat stimuli with an equal probability to reduce attention bias variability (ABV). In addition, sessions will include video conference with the experimenter. This condition has found to be more effective in PTSD symptom reduction compared to ABM.

A home-delivered version of ABM will be administered in this study. ABM will be comprised of 8 sessions with a variation of the dot-probe task in which the target probe always replaces the threat stimuli to induce diversion of attention away from threat. In addition, sessions will include video conference with the experimenter. This condition has found to be have an inferior effect on PTSD symptom reduction compared to ACT, and thus, this ABM condition has been chosen as a control condition.