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Follow the links below to find information and support services for people affected by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Updated October 2007
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Post-traumatic stress disorder
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Australian Prescriber
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Post-traumatic stress disorder is an accepted psychiatric problem and affects a small minority of people who have experienced a traumatic event. Sufferers relive the traumatic experience again and again in dreams or flashbacks. Support and education involves coping with stress and drug therapy where necessary.
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Jan 1999
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and war-related stress
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Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs,National Centre for War-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Advice and suggestions to assist veterans experiencing PTSD or related problems. Useful for partners and families.
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Acute stress reaction. Post-traumatic stress disorder
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World Health Organization
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Acute stress reaction is a transient condition that develops in response to a traumatic event. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterised by the development of a long-lasting anxiety response following a traumatic or catastrophic event.
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Jun 2007
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Psychological treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Psychological treatments can reduce symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Trauma focused treatments are more effective than non-trauma focused treatments. This review concerns the efficacy of psychological treatment in the treatment of PTSD...
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May 2007
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
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Inspire Foundation
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD for short, is an anxiety disorder and is one of a range of psychological reactions you can have to a traumatic incident. Check out this fact sheet for more info on PTSD and treatment options.
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Jul 2007
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Posttraumatic stress disorder
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Better Health Channel
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PTSD is a set of reactions that can develop in people who have experienced or witnessed an event that threatens their life or safety, or that of others around them. This can be a car or other serious accident, physical or sexual assault, war or torture, or natural disasters such as bushfires or floods.
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Feb 2008
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Post traumatic stress disorder
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DepressioNet
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder may appear after a traumatic or stressful event has occurred. Describes types, intrusive symptoms, avoidance symptoms, arousal symptoms and treatment.
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Dec 2007
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Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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Mental Health Association NSW
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Factsheet discussing PTSD - symptoms, treatment, how to help someone with PTSD, how to get assistance.
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Feb 2005
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Pharmacotherapy for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs after exposure to significant trauma and results in enormous personal and societal costs. Although traditionally treated with psychotherapy, there is increasing recognition of a theoretical basis for medicati...
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| Date: |
Oct 2005
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Post traumatic stress disorder
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myDr
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Post traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety disorder which happens to people who have experienced very unpleasant traumatic events in their lives.
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May 2006
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Psychological debriefing for preventing post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Over approximately the last fifteen years, early psychological interventions, such as psychological 'debriefing', have been increasingly used following psychological trauma. Whilst this intervention has become popular and its use has spread to several settings, empirical evidence for its efficacy is noticeably lacking. This is the third update of a review of single session psychological "debriefing", first having been undertaken in 1997.
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Dec 2001
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Surviving trauma
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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When something happens that seriously threatens someone's life or the life of friends or family, the person may experience extreme distress.
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Nov 2007
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Workplace health - coping with a critical incident
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Better Health Channel
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A critical incident is any event or series of events that is sudden, overwhelming, threatening or protracted. This may be an assault, threats, severe injury, death, fire or a bomb threat. Critical Incident Stress Management aims to help workers deal with the normal emotional reactions that may result from involvement in or exposure to critical incidents in the workplace.
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Oct 2008
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Program of assistance for the survivors of torture and trauma
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Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
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The Program of Assistance for the Survivors of Torture and Trauma (PASTT) promotes the health and wellbeing of people who have experienced torture and trauma prior to their arrival in Australia.
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Feb 2008
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