Secondary prevention of PTSD aims to prevent the establishment of maladaptive cognitive and behavioural patterns.
Commonly used approaches include:
Both aproaches encourage cognitive and emotional processing of the traumatic event.
There is no good evidence that secondary prevention of PTSD is effective.
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