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ISBN Number: 9780306460951
Editor: Shalev, Arieh Y.
Editor: Yehuda, Rachel
Editor: Shalev, Arieh Y.
Editor: Yehuda, Rachel
Written by: Shalev, A. Y.
Written by: McFarlane, A. C.
Written by: Yehuda, R.
Published by: Plenum Publishing Corporation
Location: New York
Subject: Social Psychology
Subject: Clinical Psychology
Subject: Post-traumatic stress disorder
Subject: Psychic trauma
Copyright: 2000
Edition Number: 2
Edition Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series: The Plenum series on stress and coping
Series Volume: 1404-3F
Date of Publication: January 2000
Cover Type: Hardcover
Written in: English
Illustrations: Yes
Number of Pages: 482
Book Size: 10.22x7.10x1.29 in. 2.67 lbs.
This wide ranging handbook brings together an international group of experts in the field of traumatic stress to provide integrative views of the field, discussions of the current conceptual and ethical debates on traumatic stress disorders, and experiences related to their countries or their discrete field of expertise. Included as an appendix is Childhood Trauma Remembered', a position paper issued by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Book News Annotation:
This collection continues the cooperative spirit of the 1996
Jerusalem World Conference on Traumatic Stress which brought together
mental health professionals from 27 countries. The 31 chapters are
divided into seven sections: the evolving paradigm of traumatic
stress disorder, traumatic stress perceptions in different cultures,
the victimization of women and children, studying the effects of
trauma over its changing longitudinal course, neurobiology of human
response to trauma, treating the survivor in the acute and chronic
aftermath of an adverse event, and healing traumatized societies and
preventing the cycle of violence.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Synopsis:
This collection continues the cooperative spirit of the 1996 Jerusalem World Conference on Traumatic Stress which brought together mental health professionals from 27 countries. The 31 chapters are divided into seven sections: the evolving paradigm of traumatic stress disorder, traumatic stress perceptions in different cultures the victimization of women and children, studying the effects of trauma over its changing longitudinal course, neurobiology of human response to trauma, treating the survivor in the acute and chronic aftermath of an adverse event, and healing traumatized societies and preventing the cycle of violence.
