Assessing Psychological Trauma And PTSD; Editor: Wilson, John P.; Introduction: Wilson, John; Hardback; Book

Editor: Wilson, John P.; Introduction: Wilson, John
Hardback; Book
550 pages
Published: February 1997
Guilford Press
ISBN: 1572301627
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Experts describe and evaluate self-report measures, structured interviews, and standardized batteries, in addition to psychophysiological, epidemiological, and neuropsychological approaches. Chapters explore assessment issues specific to such stressors as childhood trauma and abuse, military-related PTSD, trauma related to medical illness, and traumatic bereavement.The first review of the full range of instruments, techniques, strandardized measures, and procedures used to assess psychological trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Nineteen articles cover such topics as how to use standarized protocols for assessing PTSD and dissociative disorders; t