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Second Edition

Julian D. Ford

Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA

Damion J. Grasso

Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA

Jon D. Elhai

Department of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Toledo, Ohio, USA

Christine A. Courtois

Independent Practice, Washington, USA

National Clinical Trauma Consultant, Elements Behavioral Health, LLC, CA, USA

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The published literature on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has grown rapidly over the past 25 years, almost doubling in size since the 2009 first edition of this book. Now there are more than 10,000 journal articles and hundreds of books on this topic that are widely read by scientists, clinicians, educators, trainees, and laypersonsand increasingly by policy makers, judges and attorneys, organizational leaders, and opinion leaders in the media and popular and political culture. PTSD offers a widely accepted framework for understanding the effects of experiencing potentially traumatic events such as terrorism, domestic and community violence, physical and sexual assault, child maltreatment, human trafficking, refugee adversity homicide, disaster, life-threatening illness and accidents, torture, genocide, and the injury done to both civilians and military combatants in war. Public as well as professional awareness has grown commensurately as most people now recognize the profound impact of psychological trauma and the need for proactive and scientifically based approaches to timely prevention, humanitarian relief, and evidence-based treatment for traumatized persons, communities, and nations.

As a result, scholars, researchers, and educators in the social, biological, medical, political, and behavioral sciences need a current and comprehensive source on PTSD for their studies and teaching. The Handbook of PTSD, Second Edition () provide snapshots of key issues and topics in the PTSD field, but practitioners, clinicians, students, and trainees in the health care and human and social services need a concise and complete overview of PTSD as their source of authoritative information on PTSD. This Second Edition of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Science and Practices was designed to meet that need for a comprehensive yet concise textbook on PTSD that will be useful to researchers, educators, clinicians, and trainees in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in the mental health, health care, social and human services, and criminal justice fields.

This text covers all major topics in the traumatic stress field, from etiology to neurobiology to assessment and diagnosis to evidence-based treatment and prevention. All topics covered in the two comprehensive Encyclopedias on PTSD () of the critical role that ethnicity, culture, gender and sexual identity, and legal and economic factors have in influencing PTSD and its assessment, treatment, and prevention; and (vi) a developmental focus on the nature of PTSD across the life span from infancy to older adulthood.

The book is written at the level suitable for both advanced undergraduate and graduate trainees, as well as for educators, clinicians, or researchers seeking an overview of the traumatic stress field. The text uses language that is free of technical jargon except for key terms that are supplemented with nontechnical definitions and examples. The focus is on describing state-of-the-art research and clinical methodologies in down-to-earth terms with interesting examples and both research and clinical case studies. The text introduces the major issues, controversies, and findings in the field, as well as highlights what is not yet known and how researchers and clinicians are (or can) make further discoveries.

, Understanding Psychological Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), describes the history of scientific knowledge and popular conceptions of psychological trauma from the earliest writings several thousand years ago to modern definitions and diagnoses. Controversies such as the nature and validity of memories of childhood traumatic exposure, potential bias in diagnosis and treatment of females and persons of color, gender and ethnocultural differences in the experience and impact of psychological trauma, major expansion in the fields understanding of the range of problems involved in PTSD and diagnostic definitions of PTSD in the United States (the 2014