Specific Populations and Trauma Types: Motor Vehicle Accident and Other Traumatic Injury Survivors | NLM

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Specific Populations and Trauma Types: Motor Vehicle Accident and Other Traumatic Injury Survivors

03/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: Phoenix Australia - Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health. Published: 3/2019. This five-page information sheet addresses background issues and provides post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) presentation, assessment, and treatment recommendations for practitioners working with motor vehicle accident and other traumatic injury survivors. Approximately 10 to 15 percent of injury survivors will go on to develop chronic PTSD. (PDF)