Early crisis intervention to patients with acute stress disorder in general hospital

This report presents 2 patients who were diagnosed to have acute stress disorder (ASD), received early psychiatric intervention (crisis intervention as a short-term psychotherapy), and subsequently had good outcome. Encounter with an event that causes psychological trauma may induce post-traumatic s...

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Veröffentlicht in:Tokai journal of experimental and clinical medicine 2003-04, Vol.28 (1), p.27-33
Hauptverfasser: Andoh, Hidehiro, Yamamoto, Kenji, Ichimura, Atsushi, Sato, Shinko, Teraoka, Naoko, Ozono, Hiroko, Kushino, Nobuhisa, Maruyama, Manabu, Matsumoto, Hideo, Yamazaki, Kosuke
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Zusammenfassung:This report presents 2 patients who were diagnosed to have acute stress disorder (ASD), received early psychiatric intervention (crisis intervention as a short-term psychotherapy), and subsequently had good outcome. Encounter with an event that causes psychological trauma may induce post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, the 2 patients described here have shown no particular mental symptoms for more than 2 years after the event and are leading normal lives. Psychological debriefing as a group used to be regarded as effective for the prevention of PTSD, but early identification of the stress-related disorder and intensive treatment of individual patients is recently considered to be more necessary. Both of the 2 patients presented here showed good outcome, and early crisis intervention in individual patients is suggested to be effective for the treatment of stress-related disorders and prevention of PTSD.
ISSN:0385-0005