title: Acute stress reactions in adults.
abstract: This article summarizes the literature on acute reactions to traumatic stress in adults. It describes their morphology, natural course, long-term outcome, and underlying biological factors, and outlines directions for management and research. It assumes two categories of responses: those that mediate survival and those related to learning and adaptation. The complementary roles of fear conditioning, processing novelty, and adjusting to change are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah University Hospital, PO Box 12000, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
authors.forename: Arieh Y
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Shalev
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D013534:Survival / Q000523:psychology
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs