Improving Exposure Therapy : Rationale and Design of an International Consortium - 08/05/24

Doi : 10.1016/j.psc.2024.02.008

Jasper A.J. Smits, PhD ^a,^⁎ , Jonathan S. Abramowitz, PhD ^b, Joanna J. Arch, PhD ^c, Santiago Papini, PhD ^d, Rebecca A. Anderson, PhD ^e, Laura J. Dixon, PhD ^f, Bronwyn M. Graham, PhD ^g, Stefan G. Hofmann, PhD ^h, Jürgen Hoyer, PhD ⁱ, Jonathan D. Huppert, PhD ^j, Jolene Jacquart, PhD ^k, David Johnson, BS ^l, Peter M. McEvoy, PhD ^m, Dean McKay, PhD ⁿ, Jill Newby, PhD ^o, Michael W. Otto, PhD ^p, Andre Pittig, PhD ^q, Winfried Rief, PhD ^r, David Rosenfield, PhD ^s, Kiara R. Timpano, PhD ^t, Andre Wannemüller, PhD ^u
for the Exposure Therapy Consortium
^a Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, Mail Code A8000, Austin, TX 78712, USA
^b Department of Psychology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 3270, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
^c Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
^d Department of Psychology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2530 Dole Street, Sakamaki C400, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
^e School of Population Health and enAble Institute, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, 6102 Australia
^f Department of Psychology, University of Mississippi, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677, USA
^g School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, New South Wales 2052 Australia
^h Department of Psychology, University of Marburg, Marburg 35032, Germany
ⁱ Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
^j Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905 Israel
^k Department of Psychology, The University of Arizona, 1503 E. University Boulevard, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
^l Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Texas A&M University, 4235 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA
^m Centre for Clinical Interventions, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia
ⁿ Department of Psychology, Fordham University, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY 10458-5198, USA
^o School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney at the Black Dog Institute, Hospital Road, Randwick, New South Wales 2031, Australia
^p Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, 64 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215, USA
^q Translational Psychotherapy, Institute of Psychology, University of Goettingen, Germany
^r Department of Psychology, University of Marburg, 35032 Marburg, Germany
^s Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, 6425 Boaz Lane, Dallas TX 75205, USA
^t Department of Psychology, The University of Miami, 5665 Ponce de Leon Boulevard, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA
^u Mental Health Research and Treatment Center, Ruhr University Bochum, Massenbergstr. 9-13, Bochum 44787, Germany

^∗Corresponding author.

Résumé

The Exposure Therapy Consortium (ETC) was established to advance the science and practice of exposure therapy. To encourage participation from researchers and clinicians, this article describes the organizational structure and activities of the ETC. Initial research working group experiences and a proof-of-principle study underscore the potential of team science and larger-scale collaborative research in this area. Clinical working groups have begun to identify opportunities to enhance access to helpful resources for implementing exposure therapy effectively. This article discusses directions for expanding the consortium’s activities and its impact on a global scale.

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Keywords : Exposure therapy, Treatment, Mechanism of action, Moderators, Team science, Implementation