Concerns About Potential Bias in a Randomized Clinical Trial of Integrated Prolonged Exposure Therapy vs Seeking Safety Integrated Coping Skills Therapy

To the Editor Norman et al¹ report a randomized clinical trial of behavioral therapies for alcohol use disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military veterans: an integrated prolonged exposure model (I-PE) vs Seeking Safety (SS), an integrated coping skills model. I am the developer of the SS model, and I have concerns about how the model was used in this trial and potential biases.