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Originally Posted by anthony  This poll is designed to gain feedback on whether those with PTSD, spouses off and family members, believe whether or not the persons PTSD could have been prevented if immediate counselling, and ongoing counselling was sort after the traumatic event. |
anthony,
I think advance preparation for the trauma would have much greater potential for reducing PTSD, than after trauma treatment.
Just as some are able not to be nearly so deeply traumatized by the same events that so horrendously affect others, training can and should be used to locate the more sensitive ones so they can become desensitized (perhaps through simulations) so they're much better able to handle high trauma settings such as when people are sent off to a war zone (or, facing some other setting where severe trauma's encountered).
The military's 'basic training' includes physical training plus some skills, along with obeying orders within the command structure, but what's needed imo is the extra step, of participants being prepared emotionally for all likely and not so likely outcomes.
Don