Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction Therapy

Summary

The goal of this project is to determine if a 6-session psychotherapy intervention will help Veterans feel less deployment-related guilt and less distress related to their guilt. Half of the participants will receive the guilt focused intervention and half will receive a supportive intervention. A supplemental pilot study added in FY2021 will examine the intervention for pandemic-related guilt events.

Conditions

• Guilt
• Shame
• Post-traumatic Stress Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction Therapy

Trauma focused therapy

BEHAVIORAL

Supportive Care Therapy

Supportive therapy

Sponsors & Collaborators

• United States Department of Defense

  collaborator FED

• Brown University

  collaborator OTHER

• Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research

  collaborator OTHER

• White River Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center

  collaborator FED

• San Diego Veterans Healthcare System

  collaborator FED

• Providence VA Medical Center

  collaborator FED

• National Center for PTSD

  collaborator FED

• Veterans Medical Research Foundation

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Sonya B. Norman, PhD · Veterans Medical Research Foundation

• Christy Capone, PhD · Brown University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2015-10-31

Primary Completion

2023-06-30

Completion

2023-10-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations