On behalf of the PTSD Clinical Practice Guideline Update Panel, you are invited to review and provide feedback on the updated draft document, Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of PTSD in Adults. We also invite you to share it with your networks.
Please note a login is required to view the draft guideline and submit comments. If you do not have amyAPA account, please click on the “Register” button to create an account. Then, in the future, click on the “Non-APA Member” button to log back into the public comment portal. The online portal times out every 20 minutes so it is highly recommended that you compose your comments in a word processor then, once you are ready, paste your comments into the online form.
As you know, APA has already made several positive changes to CPG development, AND it is eager to explore additional ways to best address evidence-based practice needs more broadly and encourage contextualized science.
APA needs to hear from you. We want your feedback about this updated PTSD CPG, future CPG development strategy, and how our field can best support high-quality clinical care for all our communities. Additionally, be on the lookout for future townhall engagements where APA members can interact and share their feedback.
As you review the updated PTSD CPG, please take special note of the last few questions on the online comment form. They ask for more general feedback about APA’s CPG development and about needs for our field. Please share your feedback to these questions on the online comment form by selecting in the dropdown menu “Broader Questions about Contextualized Science” and referring to the question you are responding to along with your response.
Your feedback will be invaluable to not only the panel in its work, but also to the Advisory Steering Committee for APA’s CPGs as it considers changes to encourage more contextualized science.
For your reference, in addition to feedback about the proposed CPG itself, the two additional questions for which we are seeking feedback through the online public comment form are:
- How important do you believe it is for psychology (and/or the mental and behavioral health field broadly) to integrate contextualized science that authentically includes the complex diversities and lived experiences of people? How would that benefit APA’s future guideline development?
- How would clinical practice benefit from guidelines based on contextualized science (i.e., science that fully includes the complex diversities and lived experiences of people) including methods such as qualitative, mixed methods, or community-based participatory research?
Please refer to the FAQs document within the online comment form for answers to commonly asked questions.