Introduction
traumatic, post-traumatic stress, trauma
EVENTS, EVENT
Exposure to trauma is a major public health problem. Population-based data from around the globe show an estimated life-time prevalence of exposure to psychologically traumatic events of 70% which may have a profoundly negative impact on mental health, leading to reactions as intrusions, avoidance, negative alterations in cognitions and mood, and hyperarousal (Koenen et al., One way to facilitate and speed up the recovery process could be to provide brief, easily scalable psychological interventions early after a traumatic event. Brief trauma-focused CBT (CBT-T) provided face-to-face during the first month after exposure to a traumatic event has been shown to be effective in reducing symptoms of post-traumatic stress (Bryant et al., 