New ‘PE Coach’ Mobile App Developed For PTSD Therapy
7/31/2012
By National Center for Telehealth and Technology Public Affairs
The Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs (DoD/VA) have released "PE Coach," a smartphone mobile application for use with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment. Both departments use prolonged exposure (PE) therapy as an effective treatment for PTSD.
Psychologists at the Defense Department's National Center for Telehealth and Technology, known as T2, and VA National Center for PTSD, developed the mobile app to specifically help patients with their therapy.
"'PE Coach' is a helpful tool that assists our service members and veterans who are between visits and in treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder," said Dr. Jonathon Woodson, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. "We have shared this app with our military health care providers as well, and hope that many individuals who are receiving PE therapy will find it useful."
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