PS265. Augmenting Pharmacotherapy-resistant Post-traumatic Stress Disorder with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy
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Objective: This study tried to evaluate the usefulness and direction of the development of post-traumatic assessment and intervention based on the opinions from pediatrics and disaster and trauma-related experts using the Delphi survey technique. Methods: In-depth individual interview served as pre-survey: followed by Delphi primary and secondary survey. Specialists in child and adolescent mental health, disaster psychological support professionals, and related practitioners with the experience in the area of the disaster that has occurred in Korea participated and completed a set of questionnaires and participated in focus group interview and in-depth individual interview on post-traumatic assessment and intervention. Results: We found that the following issues have a great impact on the interventions after disasters: proper time of the initial interview in an event of a disaster, assessment notices, aged assessment services, mandatory enforcement measures, scale screening and treatment intervention elements, symptoms degree classification, intervention standardization, levelled program, care unit environments, and operation plans. Conclusion: This study proposed effective mental health intervention measures and provided the implications on developing the evaluation treatment protocol after disasters.
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