ASSESSMENT-BASED TREATMENT OF POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

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Assessment-Based Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorders is the newest work from Mardi Horowitz, M.D., the clinical researcher largely responsible for modern concepts of posttraumatic stress disorder (PSTD).

In this manual, Dr. Horowitz discusses the latest strategies for treating PTSD. The core ideas found here are contained in the fifth edition of Stress Response Syndromes, which will be published in 2011.

This work is written for Clinicians, and Dept.of Defense and VA professionals, who work with patients experiencing the effects of loss, trauma, and terror, and will find it to be of great practical value. Highlights include:

* Thoughts and emotional experiences commonly caught up in processing the memories of traumatic events

* Techniques for initial assessment, establishing supportive frameworks, exploring meanings, and improving coping skills

* Updated approach based on more complex symptom clusters and syndromes

* Use a treatment approach that shifts as the patient changes

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