VOA慢速英语:Prolonged Exposure Therapy Helps Adolescent Girls

短语讲解：

1. In prolonged exposure therapy - or PET - patients are asked to remember and then talk about the feelings and thoughts that cause them to suffer

talk about 讨论，谈论
例句：Could you talk about that?
你能谈论下这些吗？

2. The desensitizing method can provide help to soldiers who developed emotional problems because of a wartime experiences.

because of 因为，由于
例句：I'm here because of you.
我来这儿是因为你们。

3. 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.

suffer from 患（某种病），受（某种病痛）折磨
例句：All three panelists suffer from mental illnesses themselves.
这三个小组成员本身就患有精神疾病。

4. Doctor Foa says, during treatment, those who received PET had a larger decrease in PTSD symptoms and depression, compared to the other girls.

compare to 把…比作， 喻为; 与…相比
例句：They have nothing to compare to.
没有东西让他们来比较。