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Acute Stress Disorder and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Individuals Suffering from Burn Injury

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Burn injuries present unique social, emotional, and behavioral challenges to many burn survivors. While some burn survivors experience few, if any, negative psychological reactions, others experience increases in anxiety, poor body image, sleep disturbances, post-traumatic stress, and other difficulties. Even relatively small, superficial burn injuries may result in elevated levels of psychological distress in the short term. Poor psychological functioning in burn survivors is associated with a number of poor social and psychological outcomes, and can negatively impact motivation and treatment adherence. Effective management of psychological distress allows burn survivors to more fully focus on their recovery and to resume a normal life.

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  4. Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Evangelische Elisabeth Klinik Krankenhau, Berlin, Germany

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  5. Department of Burns & Reconstructive Surgery, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Pavel Brychta

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Smith, B.W., Meyer, W.J. (2020). Acute Stress Disorder and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Individuals Suffering from Burn Injury. In: Kamolz, LP., Jeschke, M.G., Horch, R.E., Küntscher, M., Brychta, P. (eds) Handbook of Burns Volume 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34511-2_1

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