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Taking Charge

A Pilot Curriculum of Self-Defense and Personal Safety Training for Female Veterans With PTSD Because of Military Sexual Trauma

Wendy S. David

University of Washington, Seattle and Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, wendy.david{at}med.va.gov

Tracy L. Simpson

University of Washington, Seattle and Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System

Ann J. Cotton

University of Washington, Seattle and Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System

The authors describe an overview of the pilot project Taking Charge, a 36-hour comprehensive behavioral intervention involving psychoeducation, personal safety, and self-defense training for 12 female veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from military sexual trauma. Self-defense training can incorporate the benefits of repeated exposure while teaching proactive cognitive and behavioral responses to the feared stimuli, and thus facilitate emotional and physical rescripting of and mastery over the trauma. Results up to 6 months follow-up indicate significant reductions in behavioral avoidance, PTSD hyperarousal, and depression, with significant increases in interpersonal, activity, and self-defense self-efficacy. The authors propose that this therapeutic self-defense curriculum provides an enhanced exposure therapy paradigm that may be a potent therapeutic tool in the treatment of PTSD.

Key Words: posttraumatic stress disorder • women veterans • personal safety • self-defense

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 21, No. 4, 555-565 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0886260505285723
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