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Acute and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are intrusions, hyperarousal and avoidance behaviour. Early interventions for acute trauma include calming, safety and stabilisation. Treatment of PTSD should be provided by psychotherapists and include trauma exposition.

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  1. Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Hauptstr. 8, 79104, Freiburg, Germany

    Kurt Fritzsche MD & Sonia Diaz Monsalve PhD

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Makerere University College of Health Sciences and Mulago National Referral and Teaching Hospital, 7072, Kampala, Mulago Hill Road, Uganda

    Catherine Abbo MB ChB, M.MED (Psyche), PhD

  3. Department of Human Sciences, Federal University of Paraná, R. Gal. Carneiro, 460, 80060-150, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

    Gertrud Frahm PhD

  4. Division of Psychosomatic Medicine, Taipei City Psychiatric Center, Taipei City Hospital, No. 309 Song-De Road, 11080, Taipei, Taiwan

    Frank Kuan-Yu Chen MD

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  1. Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Kurt Fritzsche

  2. Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

    Susan H. McDaniel

  3. Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Michael Wirsching

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Fritzsche, K., Diaz Monsalve, S., Abbo, C., Frahm, G., Chen, FY. (2014). Acute and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In: Fritzsche, K., McDaniel, S., Wirsching, M. (eds) Psychosomatic Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1022-5_14

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