Guideline Watch (march 2009): Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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APA’s Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder was published in October 2004. Since that time, a number of well-designed randomized controlled trials of pharmacological and psychotherapeutic interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been conducted in various populations exposed to trauma. Numerous case reports, small case series, and open trials have also been reported, but they will not be the focus of this guideline watch. While early intervention studies for acute stress disorder (ASD) are currently in progress, no major research on the treatment of ASD has been completed since publication of the 2004 guideline. Factors predicting development of ASD or PTSD have still not been established. A 2008 study by Bryant et al. (1) found that ASD was a poorer predictor of getting PTSD than just having PTSD criteria alone in the acute stage. In response to increased attention on U.S. military veterans returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Institute of Medicine has also reviewed and summarized the evidence supporting treatment for PTSD (2). The 2007 report recognizes that there is evidence for the pharmacological treatment of combat-related PTSD but states that this evidence is not as strong as the evidence for treatment of other trauma-related PTSD. In particular, the report states that large randomized controlled trials, consid-
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Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder.
APA’s Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder was published in October 2004. Since that time, a number of well-designed randomized controlled trials of pharmacological and psychotherapeutic interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been conducted in various populations exposed to trauma. Numerous case report...
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تاریخ انتشار 2009