DEALING WITH THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AFTERMATH OF A TERRORIST ATTACK - Part 6

LEAVING THERAPY FOR LATER


People who focus on the 2.5-3 % figure ( that after severe trauma about 2.5-3 % of people develop PTSD symptoms that stay for a relatively longer period of time), opine that as clearly most people with PTSD-like symptoms in the immediate aftermath of a severe trauma get better spontaneously without any treatment, we should not provide psychological treatments immediately and let people heal through their own personal, familial and social coping resources, and their inner resilience. And that we should only treat people who still have PTSD symptoms at least 3 months after the traumatic event. 


The risk with this approach is that if symptoms are left untreated for too long, they may not remain as amenable to treatment as they might have been right at the beginning.

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