preventions Flashcards
what is prevention
intervening so MHI doesn’t develop
3 prevention types
universal (everyone), high risk target, sub-clinical symptoms present
way 1 to prevent PTSD
psychological debreifing
way 2 to prevent PTSD
cognitive vaccine
what is psychological debriefing
counselling within a week of traumatic event
7 steps of psychological debriefing
assess impact, identify issues, reaction and validation, predict future problems, maladaptive response, resources
a study for psychological debriefing
Van emmerik et al 2002
what did Van emmerik et al 2002 do
meta analysis of psychological debriefing for different traumas
what did Van emmerik et al 2002 find
small effect, doing nothing or other interventions were better
is psychological briefing effective
No
what is a cognitive vaccine
intervening right after trauma to change the way the memory is consolidated
what does the cognitive vaccine do
tax visuospacial working memory to change consolidation
study 1 for cognitive vaccine
Hirsch et al 2017
what did Hirsch et al 2017 do
looked at woman who had emergceny C section gave half tetris to play
what did Hirsch et al 2017 find
tertis caused fewer intrusive memories and diagnostic threshold