Reference
Guides

Reference Guides and Useful Manuals

Reference Guide: Treatments Found in the PTSD Repository: This document contains brief descriptions of many of the treatments found in the PTSD-Repository, organized by treatment category.

Psychotherapy Categorization Table: This table demonstrates how you might group together standardized treatments found in the PTSD Repository to progressively move toward less specificity in classification. The examples in the table provided include psychotherapy categories and is not exhaustive to all treatments found in the PTSD Repository.

Meta-analyses in Mental Health Research: A Practical Guide: This is a free, step-by-step guide for conducting meta-analyses focused on mental health research.

Agency for Healthcare and Research Quality (AHRQ) Reports and Data

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has established a long-term partnership to commission AHRQ to utilize its Evidence-based Practice Centers to develop update reviews to inform the PTSD Repository – a publicly accessible clinical trials database maintained by the National Center for PTSD (NCPTSD). Reports and data are released annually.

AHRQ Report and Data Files (2023): Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Update of the PTSD Repository evidence base)
AHRQ Report and Data Files (2022): Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Update)
AHRQ Report and Data Files (2020): Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Update)
AHRQ Report and Data Files (2019): Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Additional Publications

Visit our Publications page to access an article reviewing the development of the PTSD Repository as well as meta-analyses and journal articles that use PTSD Repository data.