8-day Intensive Treatment Programme for PTSD and CPTSD in Sweden

"Intervention Group: 8-day intensive treatment where each treatment day consists of the following schedule:~Physical activity: 30 minutes Prolonged Exposure (PE): 90 minutes Physical activity: 30 minutes Lunch Physical activity: 60 minutes Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): 90 minutes Physical activity: 30 minutes (omitted on days 4 and 8) Dinner Psychoeducation (omitted on days 4 and 8) Participants stay at the SÄS patient hotel during the treatment (with a three-day weekend break between treatment days 1-4 and 5-8). The treatment concept includes therapist rotation, meaning that participants switch therapists between PE and EMDR sessions. The purpose of this is to increase focus on the processing process rather than the relationship between the therapist and the client."

Control group: 16 treatment sessions (90 minutes in duration) either Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) or Prolonged Exposure (PE) in a standard outpatient format-weekly sessions. Participants can choose to attend 6 sessions of Psychoeducation for PTSD in a group format before starting EMDR or PE.