title: Early crisis intervention to patients with acute stress disorder in general hospital.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Specialized Clinical Science, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan.
authors.forename: Hidehiro
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Andoh
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ichimura
authors.forename: Shinko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Naoko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Teraoka
authors.forename: Hiroko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ozono
authors.forename: Nobuhisa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kushino
authors.forename: Manabu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maruyama
authors.forename: Hideo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: Kosuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
mesh_terms: 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