Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Clinician’s Guide (Springer Series on Stress and Coping)

Diagnosis & assessment of PTSD/theoretical explanations for dev. of PTSD/various therapeutic modalities.

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This guide collects and integrates the variety of theoretical and therapeutic perspectives that have emerged since the late 1970s, a period in which post-traumatic stress was at last recognized as a distinct category. Separate sections are devoted to diagnosis, assessment, theoretical models, and therapeutic treatment. Many sources relate to the Vietnam experience, but these are presented so as to make them applicable to all patient populations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)