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Author Briere, John.

Title Psychological assessment of adult posttraumatic states : phenomenology, diagnosis, and measurement / John Briere
Edition Second edition
Published Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2004

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 MELB  616.8521 Bri/Pao 2004  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 281 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Ch. 1. Trauma types and characteristics -- Ch. 2. Symptoms, syndromes, and disorders -- Ch. 3. Critical issues in trauma-relevant assessment --Ch. 4. Assessment of traumatic events -- Ch. 5. Diagnostic interviews -- Ch. 6. General objective and projective measures -- Ch. 7. Trauma-specific objective measures -- Ch. 8. Putting it all together : assessment of pretrauma functioning, traumatic events, moderating influences, and posttraumatic states -- Ch. 9. Conclusion -- App. Initial trauma review-revised (ITR-R)
Summary "The first edition of this book was written in response to the proliferation of research on psychological trauma, along with the growing need for scientifically based evaluation of posttraumatic disturbance and its assessment. The second edition updates and expands on this endeavor. It reviews in detail a number of new trauma-relevant tests that have become available since the last edition and discusses a variety of critical issues associated with trauma-relevant DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association, 2000) diagnoses. Also included in this second edition is information on additional forms of trauma (e.g., mass violence against noncombatants, including the terrorist attacks of September 2001; life-threatening illness and medical procedures; stalking; and sex trafficking), as well as added material on acute stress responses, complicated grief reactions, adjustment disorders, posttraumatic depression, panic disorder, trauma-related psychosis, "culture-bound" stress responses, peritraumatic dissociation and other dissociative responses, and complex posttraumatic syndromes. In addition, this edition includes a brief analysis of "assault syndromes" (e.g., rape trauma syndrome and battered woman syndrome) as they relate to trauma assessment in forensic contexts. This book devotes considerable attention to different forms of trauma exposure and describes in detail the full range of potential posttraumatic responses. In addition, the reference section is relatively extensive. Although children also experience a variety of difficulties in response to major stressors, this book is limited to adult posttraumatic responses--Intro
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-270) and index
Notes Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to Ovid PsycBooks
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Subject Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Diagnosis.
Stress (Psychology) -- Testing.
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic -- diagnosis.
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic -- diagnosis.
Adult.
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.
Author American Psychological Association.
LC no. 2003028287
ISBN 1591471443
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