Which psychotherapy for PTSD?

Clinical casePatient: 21-year-old man Present illness: The patient was 8 years old, when the Great Hanshin Earthquake hit the city of Kobe, Japan and killed some 6500 persons and injured 44 000 persons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanshin_earthquake). Although the patient's house was shattered, all his family was safe and alive. However, he had many friends at school and some relatives who were killed. In particular, one of his best friends was lost. He recalls that he was despondent for a few years but gradually started living a normal life for a young boy. He graduated from primary school, junior high school and high school without any remarkable incidents. After high school, he chose to become a nurse and entered a professional school for nurses. It was in his first year of this school that the whole class participated in an emergency drill for earthquakes, in which all the students were...

Source: Evidence-Based Mental Health - October 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Furukawa, T. A. Tags: Emergency medicine, General practice / family medicine, EBMH Evidence-Based Case Conference, Nursing, Post-traumatic stress disorder Source Type: research