Praise for Clinician's Guide to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder"Rosen and Frueh's important book takes a huge leap toward clarity. The chapters are authored by leading experts in the field, and each addresses one of the pressing issues of the day. The tone is sensible and authoritative throughout, but always with a thoughtful ear toward clinical concerns and implications."
—George A. Bonanno, PhD Professor of Clinical Psychology Teachers College, Columbia University
"All clinicians and researchers dealing with anxiety disorders should have a copy of Rosen and Frueh's Clinician's Guide to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on their shelves. Moreover, they should read it from cover to cover. This compilation . . . is authoritative, very readable, and extremely well crafted. The issues are looked at from many vantage points, including assessment and treatment, cross-cultural, cognitive, and categorical/political."
—Michel Hersen, PhD, ABPP Editor, Journal of Anxiety Disorders Dean, School of Professional Psychology, Pacific University
Clinician's Guide to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder brings together an international group of expert clinicians and researchers who address core issues facing mental health professionals, including:
Assessing and treating trauma exposure and posttraumatic morbidity
Controversies and clinical implications of differences of opinion among researchers on the definition and diagnosis of the condition
Treating the full range of posttraumatic reactions
Cross-cultural perspectives on posttraumatic stress
GERALD M. ROSEN, PhD, ABPP, is a clinical professor with the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the university's School of Medicine. He maintains a private practice as a clinical psychologist. He has published numerous articles on PTSD, served as editor of
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Issues and Controversies (Wiley), and as co–guest editor with Dr. Frueh for a special issue on PTSD in the
Journal of Anxiety Disorders.
B.CHRISTOPHER FRUEH, PhD, is Director of Clinical Research at The Menninger Clinic and Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii. Formerly a clinician and director of a VA PTSD clinic in Charleston, South Carolina, his research interests are in clinical and mental health service delivery to trauma, both for veterans and civilians. He has seventeen years of experience in the field of traumatic stress and has served as primary investigator on twelve federally funded research grants relevant to this area.
Author Biographies vii
Preface xiii
PART I: Core Issues
1 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and General Stress Studies 3
Gerald M. Rosen, B. Christopher Frueh, Jon D. Elhai, Anouk L. Grubaugh, and Julian D. Ford
2 Normal Reactions to Adversity or Symptoms of Disorder? 33
Jerome C. Wakefield and Allan V. Horwitz
3 Criterion A: Controversies and Clinical Implications 51
Meaghan L. O’Donnell, Mark Creamer, and John Cooper
4 Posttraumatic Memory 77
Elke Geraerts
5 Searching for PTSD's Biological Signature 97
Gerald M. Rosen, Scott O. Lilienfeld, and Scott P. Orr
PART II: Clinical Practice
6 Assessing Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Morbidity 119
Jon D. Elhai, Julian D. Ford, and James A. Naifeh
7 Early Intervention in the Aftermath of Trauma 153
Richard Gist and Grant J. Devilly
8 Cognitive Behavioral Treatments for PTSD 177
Elizabeth A. Hembree and Edna B. Foa
9 Treating the Full Range of Posttraumatic Reactions 205
Richard A. Bryant
10 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Posttraumatic Stress 235
James D. Herbert and Evan M. Forman
Afterword: PTSD's Future in the DSM: Implications for Clinical Practice 263
Gerald M. Rosen, B. Christopher Frueh, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Paul R. McHugh, and Robert L. Spitzer
Author Index 277
Subject Index 287
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