Exposure Therapy May Help Prevent Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Thursday, June 5, 2008 - 20:21 in Health & Medicine

Exposure-based therapy, in which recent trauma survivors are instructed to relive the troubling event, may be effective in preventing the progression from acute stress disorder to post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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