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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report.

Mental health experts often use a treatment called "prolonged exposure therapy" to help soldiers returning from battle, it is considered the first step in treating soldiers who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD). Now, researchers have found the treatment can also help adolescent girls who were sexually abused as children.

In prolonged exposure therapy - or PET - patients are asked to remember and then talk about the feelings and thoughts that cause them to suffer. They do this until these memories are no longer painful. The desensitizing method can provide help to soldiers who developed emotional problems because of a wartime experiences.

Post-traumatic stress disorder is not limited to military veterans. It is also seen in young women who were sexually abused or raped when they were children.

Edna Foa is a clinical psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, she helped to develop prolonged exposure therapy for PTSD. She says young women who were abused at an earlier age often get what she calls supportive counseling, but she says that kind of treatment usually helps them for only a short period of time.

"It kind of reduces the pain in the short run; but in the long run, it actually maintains the symptoms and actually generates chronic post-traumatic stress disorder," said Foa.

Doctor Foa says teenages who receive supportive counseling may avoid situations that bring back memories of their abuse. She believes PET can offer the abused girls a cure that lasts longer. She says it gives them the skills they need to face the memories of their abuse.

Doctor Foa and her team are mended the PET program to meet the emotional maturity level of young people, then they compared it to supportive counseling in a group of sixty sexually abused girls. All the girls suffered from PTSD and was 13 to 18 years of age. Each girl got 14 sessions of either PET or supportive counseling. Each meeting lasted about 60 to 90 minutes.

Doctor Foa says, during treatment, those who received PET had a larger decrease in PTSD symptoms and depression, compared to the other girls. They also had a greater improvement in the quality of life.

"Most of the girls who received prolonged exposure actually lost the diagnosis of PTSD and really did very well even a year after, because we followed them for up to a year after the treatment," said Foa.

Doc Foa says social workers in community mental health centers can be trained in prolonged exposure therapy in just four days.

And that's the VOA Learning English Health Report. I'm Christopher Cruise.

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词汇解释

1.traumatic adj. 外伤的；创伤的

I suffered a nervous breakdown. It was a traumatic experience.
我遭受过一回精神崩溃，那是一次痛苦的经历TSZ@6^+A.#in-R。

2.desensitize vt. 使不敏感；使麻木不仁

Does sniffing too many scents desensitize your nose?
闻太多的香味你的鼻子会麻木？

3.maturity n. 成熟；到期；完备

Her speech showed great maturity and humanity.
她的演讲显示出十足的成熟和博爱Yx%elmvcK^1X9V1l。

内容解析

1.It kind of reduces the pain in the short run; but in the long run, it actually maintains the symptoms and actually generates chronic post-traumatic stress disorder.

in the long run 长远；终究

In the long run prices are bound to rise.
从长远看，物价肯定要涨wB(g+%[sS!6。

The disquiet will boil over in the long run.
这种不安情绪终有一天会爆发的bdXii7F37Lp。

2.Doctor Foa says teenages who receive supportive counseling may avoid situations that bring back memories of their abuse.

bring back 拿回来；使…恢复；使…回忆起来

Your article brought back sad memories for me.
你的文章勾起了我悲伤的回忆1,]2M#M4n#-^。

Pennsylvania brought back the death penalty in 1978.
宾夕法尼亚州于1978年恢复了死刑.m~f[DzKeVe_.g=^VvcF。

参考译文

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心理健康专家通常使用所谓的“延长暴露治疗法”来帮助战场回来的士兵，它被认为是治疗创伤后应激障碍(PTSD)的第一步Z5phAN,M9s。现在，研究者发现这种治疗也能帮助童年遭受性虐的女孩zUEsTJoy)_#9@=。

在“延长暴露治疗法”(PET)中，患者被要求回忆，然后讲出遭受创伤后的感受和想法，直到这种记忆不再痛苦为止WVslHOJ9|Cw[gMOR。这种脱敏疗法能帮助那些因为战争经历患上心理问题的士兵L)_bEFeT15]HaEKq8。

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埃德娜·福艾是宾夕法尼亚大学临床心理学家，她帮助开发了延长暴露治疗法，她说幼年遭受虐待的女孩通常会获得她所谓的“支持咨询”，但她说这种治疗通常只能在短期内帮助到她们Ja9cz+tfeHSWOc7t1。

“这种方法能在短期内减轻痛苦，但从长期看能维持这种病症，并引发慢性的创伤后压力障碍Rra|8No3vg7aPZo2=*Jc。”

福艾医生说接受支持咨询的女孩可以不用回忆起痛苦的往事，她认为PET能让受虐女孩得到更长的治疗，她说这种疗法提供了直面受虐记忆的能力GKY0ov4rhen.kB0hBp。

福艾医生和她的团队正在对PET项目做出调整，使之符合青年人的情感成熟度，然后在60名受虐女孩中将之与支持咨询作对比iw~4A7Pd&+4+*dd|W41I。每个女孩都患有PTSD，年龄在13到18岁之间f||VXgX%lf,pH。每个女孩都得到14次PET或支持咨询的帮助，每次持续60到9分钟)UL,I0KJB7)=GRK#。

福艾医生说在治疗期间，对其他女孩相比，那些接受PET的女孩的PTSD症状和抑郁有了很大减轻，她们的生活质量也有了很大提升K89;67OqMfV7q(+PJ,B。

“接受延长暴露疗法的大多数女孩的PTSD症状都消失了，甚至在一年后都很好，因为我们在治疗一年后都在跟踪她们的情况5k]JvfG#4@l。”

福艾医生说社区心理健康中心的社会工人可以在四天内完成延长暴露疗法的培训]J3so|7-Ser9#;s]N#!。

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