Are you interested in PTSD or suicide-focused treatment through our Outpatient Behavioral Health clinic?
Nearly everyone suffers temporary difficulties following a traumatic event or long periods of repetitive stress. However, if your symptoms last for months or years, or if they interfere with your daily life and ability to hold a job, enjoy relationships or simply make it through a day, you can benefit tremendously from the treatments offered with STRIVE.
Our STRIVE team provides effective treatment for suicidal thoughts, suicidal behaviors, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through the Outpatient Behavioral Health. We offer a range of treatment programs featuring leading therapies, specifically designed for outpatient settings. Treatment with our expert clinicians takes on average 12 sessions. If you are ready to make a change, call or email us so we can contact you about enrollment.
What treatments do we offer?
- Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention- BCBTis a skills-focused approach with a strong empirical evidence base for reducing subsequent suicide attempts. BCBT follows a multi-phased approach to provide patients with immediate symptom relief and reductions in suicide risk. Trained providers work to establish a strong collaborative relationship with a suicidal patient, assess risk, and develop a Crisis Response Plan. BCBT focuses initially on building emotion regulation and crisis management skills followed by dismantling the patient's suicidal belief system. BCBT is typically administered over 12 sessions with some flexibility to add or remove a session depending on the patient’s progression through treatment.
- Cognitive Processing Therapy- CPT is a specific type of cognitive behavioral therapy that has been effective in reducing symptoms of PTSD that have developed after experiencing a variety of traumatic events including child abuse, combat, sexual assault, and natural disasters. CPT is generally delivered over 12 sessions and helps patients learn how to challenge and modify unhelpful beliefs related to the trauma. In so doing, the patient creates a new understanding and conceptualization of the traumatic event so that it reduces its ongoing negative effects on current life. This treatment is strongly recommended for the treatment of PTSD.
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Prolonged Exposure- PE is a manualized cognitive behavioral therapy consisting of imaginal exposure (repeated recounting of the most disturbing traumatic memory) followed by processing thoughts and feelings related to the imaginal experience; in-vivo exposure (approaching trauma-related situations); psychoeducation about PTSD; and controlled breathing training. Between sessions, participants listen to audio recordings of the imaginal recounting daily and complete in-vivo exercises. Typically, PE is delivered weekly for 10-12, 90-minutes sessions. For this study, participants will complete daily 90-minute sessions for 10 consecutive weekdays during a 2-week period. Cognitive behavioral treatments tend to be the most highly efficacious treatments for PTSD.
- Written Exposure Therapy- WET is a manualized exposure-based psychotherapy for PTSD that is recommended by the VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline. WET can help individuals with PTSD find new ways to think about a traumatic experience and what it means to them. In a series of five brief sessions, the therapist guides a person to recall the traumatic experience and write in detail about the thoughts and emotions they had at the time of the event. WET does not involve homework and all work is completed during session.
Take the first step by connecting with with our STRIVE team today.
Brief Cognitive Behavior Therapy (BCBT) for Suicide Prevention
The STRIVE BCBT program provides state-of-the-art psychological treatment for current service members, veterans, first responders (e.g., law enforcement officers, dispatchers, firefighters and paramedics) without a military history, and their family who are experiencing symptoms of suicidal thought and behaviors (STB).
BCBT uses highly trained clinicians in brief cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide (BCBT) developed by STRIVE researchers. BCBT is very effective and is one of two therapies endorsed by the DoD, VA and the National Academy of Medicine. BCBT is a 12-session treatment where you meet individually with one of our clinicians for 60-minute sessions. Participants in the BCBT program will be enrolled in a research study to help us improve treatment outcomes and better understand how to help veterans overcome STB. As part of this study, we will conduct assessments with you and ask you to complete various questionnaires before, during and after treatment.
BCBT Tele-Health:
BCBT Tele-Health is a weekly treatment program that lasts approximately three months. You will meet individually with one of our trained clinicians for 12 sessions of brief cognitive behavioral therapy via tele-health. Materials and log-in information will be mailed to the study participant. Participant will coordinate appointment times with their designated clinician. You will be compensated for your time when completing post-treatment assessments.
Generous contributions allow STRIVE to provide quality treatment at no cost to service members, veterans and first responders. If you are interested in learning more, in participating in one of our studies or in sponsoring a veteran/first responder to attend one of these treatments, go to: STRIVE2Be.org.
Serving Those Who Serve
Veterans and First Responders who go through our studies help STRIVE find the answers to how we can make treatments better, faster and stronger for those that follow.
It is through generous contributions that STRIVE can provide quality, life-saving treatment studies at no cost to the service members, veterans, first responders and their families. If you are interested in participating in one of our studies or want to sponsor a veteran/first responder to attend, please fill out the following form:
If you want to refer a patient send an email to STRIVE@osumc.edu.