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 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.
Andoh
Hidehiro
H
Specialized Clinical Science, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan.
Yamamoto
Kenji
K
Ichimura
Atsushi
A
Sato
Shinko
S
Teraoka
Naoko
N
Ozono
Hiroko
H
Kushino
Nobuhisa
N
Maruyama
Manabu
M
Matsumoto
Hideo
H
Yamazaki
Kosuke
K
D000328:Adult; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D005260:Female; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008875:Middle Aged; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000517:prevention & control; D040701:Stress Disorders, Traumatic, Acute / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome