Subthreshold Post Traumatic Stress Disorder:: A Comparison of Veterans with Different Levels of Traumatic Stress - Implications for the Prevention and Treatment of Populations with PTSD - Softcover

Yarvis, Jeffrey

 
9783639083323: Subthreshold Post Traumatic Stress Disorder:: A Comparison of Veterans with Different Levels of Traumatic Stress - Implications for the Prevention and Treatment of Populations with PTSD

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This groundbreaking book presents novel ways ofexamining post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)since its acceptance as a diagnosis in 1980.By detailed examination of the taxonomichistory of PTSD and empirically definingsubthreshold PTSD, this text examines thedeleterious effects of traumatic stress beforediagnostic thresholds are met. In doing so itaddresses the uncertainties and controversies thatconfront the field of traumatology and the verynature of the disorder itself. The book providesclinicians a critical research foundation for thestudy of prevention and treatment of PTSD. It isdivided into 5 major sections:(1) Background andproblems with PTSD;(2) A History-Models of PTSD, thethreshold problem providing impetus for the researchof subthreshold PTSD; (3) Research Methodology -Measuring subthreshold PTSD;(4)Findings and Results;and(5) A Discussion of different levels of PTSD inrelation to co-morbid depression, alcohol usedisorders, and physical health problems.Highlighting the problems associated with PTSD inveterans and other trauma victims, the studypunctuates the need to study subthreshold PTSD.

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