Clinician's Guide to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 303
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Praise for Clinician's Guide to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

"Rosen and Frueh's important book takes a huge leap toward clarity. The chapters are authored by leading experts in the field, and each addresses one of the pressing issues of the day. The tone is sensible and authoritative throughout, but always with a thoughtful ear toward clinical concerns and implications."
—George A. Bonanno, PhD Professor of Clinical Psychology Teachers College, Columbia University

"All clinicians and researchers dealing with anxiety disorders should have a copy of Rosen and Frueh's Clinician's Guide to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on their shelves. Moreover, they should read it from cover to cover. This compilation . . . is authoritative, very readable, and extremely well crafted. The issues are looked at from many vantage points, including assessment and treatment, cross-cultural, cognitive, and categorical/political."
—Michel Hersen, PhD, ABPP Editor, Journal of Anxiety Disorders Dean, School of Professional Psychology, Pacific University

Clinician's Guide to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder brings together an international group of expert clinicians and researchers who address core issues facing mental health professionals, including:

• Assessing and treating trauma exposure and posttraumatic morbidity

• Controversies and clinical implications of differences of opinion among researchers on the definition and diagnosis of the condition

• Treating the full range of posttraumatic reactions

• Cross-cultural perspectives on posttraumatic stress

Content:
Chapter 1 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and General Stress Studies (pages 1–31): Gerald M. Rosen, B. Christopher Frueh, Jon D. Elhai, Anouk L. Grubaugh and Julian D. Ford
Chapter 2 Normal Reactions to Adversity or Symptoms of Disorder? (pages 33–49): Jerome C. Wakefield and Allan V. Horwitz
Chapter 3 Criterion A: Controversies and Clinical Implications (pages 51–75): Meaghan L. O'Donnell, Mark Creamer and John Cooper
Chapter 4 Posttraumatic Memory (pages 77–95): Elke Geraerts
Chapter 5 Searching for PTSD's Biological Signature (pages 97–116): Gerald M. Rosen, Scott O. Lilienfeld and Scott P. Orr
Chapter 6 Assessing Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Morbidity (pages 117–151): Jon D. Elhai, Julian D. Ford and James A. Naifeh
Chapter 7 Early Intervention in the Aftermath of Trauma (pages 153–175): Richard Gist and Grant J. Devilly
Chapter 8 Cognitive Behavioral Treatments for PTSD (pages 177–203): Elizabeth A. Hembree and Edna B. Foa
Chapter 9 Treating the Full Range of Posttraumatic Reactions (pages 205–234): Richard A. Bryant
Chapter 10 Cross?Cultural Perspectives on Posttraumatic Stress (pages 235–261): James D. Herbert and Evan M. Forman