Direct Therapeutic Exposure (DTE) is a technique pioneered by Patrick A. Boudewyns, where stressors are vividly and safely confronted to help combat veterans, and patients suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), panic disorder, or phobias. A similar therapy is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). First known publication in book form is Flooding and Implosive Therapy: Direct Therapeutic Exposure in Clinical Practice by Patrick A. Boudewyns, Robert H. Shipley. 1983. ISBN 0306411555.
Boudewyns, P.A. & Hyer, L. (1990). "Physiological Response to Combat Memories and Preliminary Treatment Outcome in Vietnam Veteran PTSD patients treated with Direct Therapeutic Exposure." Behavior Therapy, 21, 63-87.
External links
A Review of Alternative Approaches to the Treatment of Post Traumatic Sequelae (http://www.fsu.edu/~trauma/v6i4/v6i4a2.htm)
Exposure based treatments for individuals with PTSD are based on the theory that individuals not only fear the original trauma but also the memory that they hold of it (Rothbaum and Foa, 1992; as cited in Michenbaum, 1997).
Exposure therapy has been found to be effective amoung individuals with PTSD as a result of some traumatic experiences such as rape, combat or living in a war zone for example.
It is basically a variant of the exposure based intervention and combines the clients envisioning their traumatic experience and experiencing all the sensations and emotions that go along with it while visually tracking the therapists finger “from extreme left to extreme right” (Michenbaum, 1997:304).
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