However, the study sought to determine if new or additional CBT techniques were effective. The control condition for this study should have been broken up into two different groups: a WLC group and a group that received traditional CBT without new techniques involved. The current study only affirms that CBT is effective in treating PTSD; however, it does not determine if the new additional techniques over the traditional CBT techniques offer any incremental validity in the treatment of PTSD. Therefore, the overall design of the study is flawed. Moreover, we do not know which CBT techniques were beneficial in treatment. Perhaps a mixed design could have assisted in better understanding this. 2. Chemtob, Nakashima, and Carlson (2002) report that up until the current study there was only one controlled treatment study of children with PTSD following a

The current study was designed to look at a brief treatment for PTSD in children following a natural disaster. The participants were children from the aforementioned study who still met PTSD criteria (the natural disaster was a hurricane in Hawaii that occurred a year prior). The treatment used was Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) which is a brief treatment method that incorporates CBT and elements of psychodynamic therapy. There were 32 children that completed the study. The Child Reaction Index (CRI), Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS), Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), and child ratings of helpfulness worried the outcome measures. The study used a lagged-groups ABA design where the children are measured at baseline, treatment provided, and following treatment the children are measured