American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders 2004 TREATING PATIENTS WITH ACUTE STRESS DISORDER AND POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER: A Quick Reference Guide > TREATING PATIENTS WITH ACUTE STRESS DISORDER AND POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER: A Quick Reference Guide Sections: A. Initial Assessment, 1. Initial Clinical Approaches to the Patient, 2. Assessing Exposure to a Traumatic Event and Establishing a Diagnosis, B. Psychiatric Management, 1. Evaluate the safety of the patient and others, including risk for suicide., 2. Determine a treatment setting., 3. Establish and maintain a therapeutic alliance., 4. Coordinate the treatment effort., 5. Monitor treatment response., 6. Provide education., 7. Enhance adherence to treatment., 8. Increase understanding of and adaptation to the psychosocial effects of the disorder., 9. Evaluate and manage physical health and functional impairments., C. Principles of Treatment Selection, 1. Goals of Treatment, 2. Choice of Initial Treatment Modality, 3. Approaches for Patients Who Do Not Respond to Initial Treatment, 4. Ethnic and Cultural Factors, D. Specific Treatment Strategies, 1. Psychopharmacology, 2. Psychotherapy. Topics Discussed: anticonvulsants; antidepressive agents, tricyclic; benzodiazepines; cognitive therapy; eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy; monoamine oxidase inhibitors; post-traumatic stress disorder; psychotherapy, psychodynamic; selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor; stress disorders, traumatic, acute. Excerpt: "Based on Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, originally published in November 2004. A guideline watch, summarizing significant developments in the scientific literature since publication of this guideline, may be available.Consider type of event and available resources...." DOI: 10.1176/appi.books.9780890423370.110736 The content above is only an excerpt. For full access subscribe now or log into your account below. You can also purchase 24- or 48-hour access; learn more Username: Password:   FORGOT your subscriber username and/or password? Get a reminder via email: The email I registered with is:  Not a subscriber? Subscribe Today PsychiatryOnline is a powerful website that features DSM-IV-TR® and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of an unsurpassed collection of psychiatric references, including books, journals, and self-assessment tools. PsychiatryOnline’s innovative platform makes these resources easy and convenient to use, offering Precise and powerful searching across books and journals. Quick pathways to related material. Mobile access from any computer with a Web connection. Ability to download any book section to PDA. Links from bibliographic references to the full text of journal articles. References to material not located in the PsychiatryOnline collection lead you to PubMed. Learn more about PsychiatryOnline Need more help? PsychiatryOnline Customer Service may be reached by emailing PsychiatryOnline@psych.org or by calling 800-368-5777 (in the U.S.) or 703-907-7322 (outside the U.S.).