Acute Stress Disorder essentially features a development of characteristic symptoms lasting from 3 days to 1 month following an exposure to one or more traumatic events. These events include an exposure to war as a combatant or civilian, threatened or actual violent personal assualt (e.g., sexual violence, physical attack, active combat, mugging, childhood physical and/or sexual violence, being kidnapped, being taken hostage, terrorist attack, torture), natural or human-made disasters (earthquake, hurricane, airplane crash), and severe accident (severe motor vehicle, industrial accident). There are varying degrees of the clinical presentation by individual of the disorder but it generally involves an anxiety response which includes some
