an idea = that acute psychological intervention would prevent future post-traumatic symptoms?

Yes, the idea is that acute psychological intervention will prevent symptoms.

Evidently the "contemporary guidelines" no longer support this idea.

Can you define "psychological intervention" for me?

There's plenty of cases of PTSD out there.

They mean debriefing. Have a look at the article Oristar refers to.

I'll look later.

Can't think how effective it might be. PTSD can last for a lifetime.

Not so bad.
Only for 5 to 10 percent survivors: " an international review found that just 5 to 10 per cent of those who experience natural disasters develop PTSD."

The point of the article is to discuss research suggesting debriefing as an intervention is NOT effective and can actually have a negative effect. There is a lot of research suggesting this and the article discusses alternatives.

Debriefing was supposed to reduce the numbers of people going on to develop PTSD. It isn't a treatment for it.

There are a number of treatments that are reasonably effective if one is one of the unfortunate minority who go on to develop PTSD after trauma....but there is no universally effective treatment.

Natural disasters aside, I'm talking about rape victims, shell-shocked veterans, civilian "collateral damage" victims, and child molestation victims.

You got any stats for me on those demographics?

I'm currently researching the available resources for PTSD cases of adult survivors of childhood rape and sexual assault.

It's quite alarming and depressing to realise the plight of this huge group of people, Dlowan.

One in four adults, totally forgotten and overlooked by both the medical and psyche professions.

That figure does not include those who have never "come out" about what happened to them.

Good point.

Google Scholar search offers no result for the time being.