Toward staging differentiation for posttraumatic stress disorder treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Several medical and psychiatric disorders have stage-based treatment decision-making methods. However, international treatment guidelines for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) fail to give specific treatment recommendations based on chronicity or stage of the disorder. There is convincing evidence of a finite range of PTSD symptom trajectories, implying that different phenotypes of the disorder can be distinguished, which are highly relevant for a staging typology of PTSD.

Methods

State-of-the-art review building on prior work on staging models in other disorders as a mapping tool to identify and synthesize toward PTSD.

Results

We propose a four-stage model of PTSD ranging from stage 0: trauma-exposed asymptomatic but at risk to stage 4: severe unremitti

SUBMITTER: Nijdam MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10100486 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature