The focus has generally been reducing intrusive memories (and hence improving mental health/functional outcomes) following a (potentially) traumatic event rather than PTSD prevention as such - there are now some larger RCTs, e.g.:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

it's an interesting first illustration of an idea within a naturalistic context, and a next step would be to start evaluating it, e.g. in a formal case series.

I see that the "has potential" is in the context of "Pending further rigorous testing…", i.e. has potential if rigorous testing shows it to be effective - which is kind of tautologous, but I guess there is not much more that they can conclude at this stage:

Yes, the mention of "early intervention" is a bit confusing as it doesn't relate to the case illustration here, rather something they mention in the paper as a potential future use-case for exploring.

(Note that variations of this kind of technique have been integrated into some imagery-focussed therapies, e.g.:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

and have been tested in isolation in some RCTs, e.g.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

but this has all previously been in adult samples).

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