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Posttraumatic stress disorder--additional perspectives /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lipton, Merrill I.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Springfield, Ill., U.S.A. : C.C. Thomas, [1994]
Subjects:
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.