Editing Post-traumatic stress disorder (section)

=== Psychological debriefing ===
{{see also|Debriefing#Crisis intervention}}

Trauma-exposed individuals often receive treatment called ''psychological debriefing'' in an effort to prevent PTSD, which consists of interviews that are meant to allow individuals to directly confront the event and share their feelings with the counselor and to help structure their memories of the event.<ref name=AHRQ2013/> However, several [[Meta-analysis|meta-analyses]] find that psychological debriefing is unhelpful, is potentially harmful and does not reduce the future risk of developing PTSD.<ref name="Shalev 2017" /><ref name=AHRQ2013>{{cite book |vauthors=Gartlehner G, Forneris CA, Brownley KA, Gaynes BN, Sonis J, Coker-Schwimmer E, Jonas DE, Greenblatt A, Wilkins TM, Woodell CL, Lohr KN |title=Interventions for the Prevention of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Adults After Exposure to Psychological Trauma |chapter=Discussion |date=2013 |publisher=Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US) |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK133347 |pmid=23658936}}</ref><ref name=Feldner2007>{{cite journal |vauthors=Feldner MT, Monson CM, Friedman MJ |title=A critical analysis of approaches to targeted PTSD prevention: current status and theoretically derived future directions |journal=Behavior Modification |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=80–116 |date=January 2007 |pmid=17179532 |doi=10.1177/0145445506295057 |citeseerx=10.1.1.595.9186 |s2cid=44619491}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Rose S, Bisson J, Churchill R, Wessely S |title=Psychological debriefing for preventing post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) |journal=[[Cochrane Library|The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews]] |issue=2 |pages=CD000560 |date=2002 |pmid=12076399 |doi=10.1002/14651858.CD000560 |pmc=7032695}}</ref> This is true for both single-session debriefing and multiple session interventions.<ref name="Roberts_2019" /> As of 2017 the [[American Psychological Association]] assessed psychological debriefing as ''No Research Support/Treatment is Potentially Harmful''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Psychological Debriefing for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |url=https://www.div12.org/psychological-treatments/treatments/psychological-debriefing-for-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/ |website=www.div12.org |date=19 August 2014 |publisher=[[Society of Clinical Psychology]]: Division 12 of The American Psychological Association |access-date=9 September 2017}}</ref>