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- Discusses the acute, and chronic effects of PTSD on personal and social functioning
- Reviews the origins of PTSD, treatment options and manifestations of the disorder
- Features evidence-based chapters written from the clinical perspective, and through the lens of PTSD from within the context of the experience of life-altering trauma
This book is an overview of current approaches to and treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It meets the market need for a book that provides an assessable overview of PTSD treatment options that is needed by practitioners to assist them in selecting individually appropriate care. Evidence-based and written from the clinical perspective, chapters focus on PTSD from within the context of the experience of life-altering trauma. The book begins with an overview of the history of the diagnosis, as it was first officially recognized in psychiatry after the Vietnam War. Various manifestations of PTSD are then discussed, including nightmares, depression, chronic pain, and substance abuse, specifically as it relates to the wide-spread opioid epidemic facing the United States. Further examinations cover of the types of treatment such as imagery rehearsal therapy, exposure therapy, group therapy and classic cognitive behavioral therapy. The book closes with an analysis of complementary approaches to PTSD, as well as the realities of failed treatment. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a unique, inclusive reference that is written for the practitioner confronted with patients with PTSD. Table of Contents- Shell shock and society
- Unzipping ptsd - criteria and screeners
- Disasters and societal trauma - complex and societal ptsd
- The origins of ptsd - psychodynamic trauma and the human stress response
- Nightmare science
- Chronic ptsd
- Treating the emergency - acute trauma
- Classic psychotherapy for ptsd
- Group therapy for ptsd
- Classic cognitive behavioral therapy
- Prolonged exposure therapy
- Eye movement desensitization and processing (emdr)
- Imagery rehearsal therapy
- Ptsd – the medications
- Sleep apnea and ptsd
- Complementary approaches to healing ptsd - art, body, and mind awareness
- When treatment doesn't work
- An evidence-based approach to ptsd therapy
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