Post-Traumatic Stress

Follow the links below to find information and support services for people affected by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Reviewed January 2009

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Title:	Media release. More assistance to aid emotional recovery after bushfires
Publisher:	Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:	The Australian Government will provide further resources to aid the emotional and psychological recovery of bushfire affected families and communities in Victoria.
Date:	Apr 2009

Title:	Surviving trauma
Publisher:	Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:	When something happens that seriously threatens someone's life or the life of friends or family, the person may experience extreme distress.
Date:	Mar 2009

Title:	Post-traumatic stress disorder - myDr.com.au
Publisher:	myDr
Description:	Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a type of anxiety disorder that affects people who have witnessed or been involved in a traumatic event.
Date:	Jan 2009

Title:	Program of assistance for the survivors of torture and trauma
Publisher:	Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:	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.
Date:	Jan 2009

Title:	Dealing with a traumatic event when you have a mental illness
Publisher:	SANE Australia
Description:	If you have an existing mental illness, a traumatic event may be even more distressing, and may trigger or worsen the symptoms of your condition.
Date:	Jan 2009

Title:	Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Publisher:	SANE Australia
Description:	Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (sometimes called PTSD) is a form of anxiety disorder. Some people develop this condition after they have experienced a traumatic event.
Date:	Jan 2009

Title:	Workplace health - coping with a critical incident
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	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.
Date:	Oct 2008

Title:	Multiple session early psychological interventions for the prevention of post-traumatic stress disorder
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	Traumatic events can have a significant impact on individuals', families' and communities' abilities to cope. In the past, single session interventions such as psychological debriefing were widely used with the aim of preventing continuing psychological...
Date:	Aug 2008

Title:	Posttraumatic stress disorder
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Posttraumatic stress disorder (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. Effective treatments are available for PTSD.
Date:	Mar 2008

Title:	Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Publisher:	Inspire Foundation
Description:	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.
Date:	Jul 2007

Title:	Psychological treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	This review concerns the efficacy of psychological treatment in the treatment of PTSD. There is evidence that individual trauma focused cognitive-behavioural therapy (TFCBT), eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR), stress management and gr...
Date:	May 2007

Title:	The Australian Guidelines for the Treatment of Adults with Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Publisher:	National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Description:	Australian health practitioners now have their own guidelines to help people with acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder (ASD and PTSD).
Date:	Feb 2007

Title:	Pharmacotherapy for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	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...
Date:	Oct 2005

Title:	Psychological debriefing for preventing post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	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.
Date:	Dec 2001

Title:	Post-traumatic stress disorder
Publisher:	Australian Prescriber
Description:	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.
Date:	Jan 1999

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