Post-traumatic Stress Disorders
Concepts and Therapy
Published on 25. February 1999
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-0-471-96058-4 (ISBN)
Description
This text deals with the diagnosis and context of post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), psychological mechanisms and behaviour, and strategies for therapy and prevention. The text emphasizes the cognitive behavioural approach to PTSD and integrates important perspectives from social psychology, experimental cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and developmental psychology. It goes on to discuss cross-cultural issues and the controversy surrounding various short term and crisis interventions.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 157 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-96058-4 (9780471960584)
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Content
Part I Introduction: PTSD in adults; PTSD in children and adolescents. Part II Social psychological aspects: coping styles and attribution; social support, crisis support; changes in outlook; cross cultural aspects of PTSD. Part III Basic psychological mechanisms: psycho-biology of stress; intrusive thoughts; cognition, emotion and PTSD; risk probability and risk taking behaviour. Part IV Intervention: debriefing; group therapy; individual cognitive-behavioural therapy; eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR); planning a psycho-social response to a disaster. Part V Conclusions: a cognitive behavioural model of PTSD; conclusions and implications.