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We are very fortunate to have a volume with chapters that provide rich and detailed descriptions of various treatment programs across the spectrum of trauma-related disorders. This approach allows readers to select the chapter, which describes the type of patient or type of approach of interest, and obtain the desired information on a specific issue. It is also useful, however, for readers to consider the issues raised in chapters that may not seem to directly relate to their usual practice domain because the convergent lessons emerging from these chapters can inform and enhance our treatments for different types of patients. To this end, in this chapter we step back and summarize not only commonalities observed across treatments (see Chap. 1) but also consider differences across treatments and ask the larger question of how best to match treatments to patients. The phrase “what works for whom” asks the question what interventions are of demonstrated benefit to which specific patients groups. This question is of relevance to clinicians and patient consumers alike, as well as clinic administrators, insurers, and policy makers.
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Cloitre, M., Bryant, R.A., Schnyder, U. (2015). What Works for Whom?. In: Schnyder, U., Cloitre, M. (eds) Evidence Based Treatments for Trauma-Related Psychological Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07109-1_27
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