How to Prevent Trauma From Becoming PTSD Anxiety and Depression Association of America, ADAA
We review current evidence of PTSD prevention and outline the need to improve the disorder’s early detection and intervention in individual-specific paths to chronic PTSD. Psychoeducation can be used to encourage resiliency and adaptation and, ultimately, help-seeking, but its content and dissemination need to be appropriate for the audience and time after trauma exposure (Wessely …