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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Posttraumatic stress disorder--additional perspectives
  name:
    name part: Lipton, Merrill I.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 1994
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 241 pages ; 27 cm.
  table of contents: Perspective -- Brief relevant history of PTSD -- Understanding PTSD: vulnerability, predisposition, stigma -- Description of symptoms (from DSM-III-R) -- Recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the event -- Recurrent distressing dreams of the event -- Sudden acting or feeling as if the traumatic event were recurring -- Intense psychological distress at exposure to events -- Efforts to avoid thoughts or feelings associated with the trauma -- Efforts to avoid activities or situations that arouse recollections.
  table of contents: Inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma -- Markedly diminished interest in significant activities -- Feeling of detachment or estrangement from others -- Restricted rage of affect, e.g., unable to have loving feelings -- Sense of a foreshortened future -- Difficulty falling or staying asleep -- Irritability or outbursts of anger -- Difficulty concentrating -- Hypervigilance -- Exaggerated startle response -- Physiologic reactivity upon exposure -- Additional symptoms (not in DSM-III-R) -- Denial -- Substance abuse -- Depression -- Crying -- Anxiety, panic.
  table of contents: Most comfortable when alone -- Dissociative experiences -- Guilt -- Problems with memory -- Physical and medical problems -- Paranoid thinking -- Workaholic tendencies, overcompensation -- Courting danger: the adrenaline high -- Profound changes -- PTSD in family members -- Family and marital problems -- Multiple marriage and divorce -- Strong reaction to anger and violence -- Intolerance of stress -- Tips for making the diagnosis more consistently -- Prevention of PTSD -- Treatment -- Considerations in planning treatment -- Goals for treatment.
  table of contents: Modalities of treatment -- Helpful suggestions for treatment -- Treatment of acute symptoms -- Medication -- Duration of treatment -- Additional considerations -- Special considerations with combat veterans -- Legal considerations -- Recommendations for dealing with disasters.
  note: Merrill I. Lipton.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
  classification: RC552.P67 L57 1994
  classification: 616.85/21
  classification: 1994 C-526
  classification: WM 170 L767p 1994
  identifier: 0398058997
  identifier: 93037142
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 930910
    record change date: 20191202143921.0
    record identifier: in00004489702