Psychological assessment of adult posttraumatic states : phenomenology, diagnosis, and measurement / John Briere.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Briere, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-traumatic stress disorder--Diagnosis.

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Stress (Psychology)--Testing.

Stress (Psychology).

Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic--diagnosis.

Medical Subjects:

Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic--diagnosis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

APA PsycBOOKS.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2004.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

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. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)

Contents:

Trauma types and characteristics

Symptoms, syndromes, and disorders

Critical issues in trauma-relevant assessment

Assessment of traumatic events

Diagnostic interviews

General objective and projective measures

Trauma-specific objective measures

Putting it all together: assessment of pretrauma functioning, traumatic events, moderating influences, and posttraumatic states

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-270) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2005 dcunns.

ISBN:

1591471443

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