Prevention Of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - 2031 Words

â€Å"Prevention of PTSD in Soldiers Returning from Afghanistan/Iraq† seeks to discuss the correct treatments and solutions to prevent this disorder. The starting point of the discursion is the definition and actual classification of this disorder, and also the concept of some solutions such as hypnosis as an option, or solution from a cognitive-behavior perspective. The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been really controversial since many years ago now. Nowadays, scientifics and researchers had proposed a series of several pharmacological treatments that may be helpful to reduce the impact of trauma exposure. The discussion also includes a number of other psychological interventions that have been useful in the prevention of PTSD.†¦show more content†¦When a person is faced with an experience that has to do with personal tragedies, environmental disasters, or wars, they must continue their lives and cannot do it like before because their emotional life is alt ered. It is observed from avoidance behaviors to behaviors both poles of hyperarousal emotional response limit performance of the person in their life or immediately after the event lived. Diagnostic The most widely used instruments for the assessment of symptoms related to PTSD have usually been self-reports, among which we find two types of assessment tools, interviews and questionnaires, inventories and scales. Additionally, today researchers have turned their attention to finding characteristic psychophysiological and neurobiological markers of patients with PTSD. The community-based studies reveal that the overall prevalence of PTSD ranges are between 1 and 14%, explaining this variability by the diagnostic criteria used and the type of population studied. (Norris, F., Slone, L., 2013). In studies of individuals at risk (eg, war veterans, victims of volcanic eruptions or terrorist attacks) can be found prevalence rates ranging from 3 to 58%. It is estimated that amounts to 40 percent in very violent neighborhoods. Treatment Treatment of PTSD has always been difficult and complex,