Evidence-Based Practice For Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Keywords
Evidence-based practices; Evidence-based psychotherapy; Familial impairments; Occupational impairments; Posttraumatic stress disorder interventions; Social impairments
Abstract
This chapter briefly reviews the evidence for other posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) interventions so as to provide a comprehensive summary of treatment options for the disorder. The appropriate use of evidence-based practices, administered as soon as possible after return from deployment, may offer the best hope for alleviating PTSD and preventing subsequent occupational, social, and familial impairments. A number of etiological pathways and causal mechanisms have been implicated in the development of PTSD. PTSD is a severe psychiatric disorder resulting from a history of exposure to a traumatic event that results in a minimum threshold of symptoms across four symptom clusters namely: intrusion, avoidance, negative alterations in cognitions and mood, and alterations in arousal and reactivity. Additional criteria relate to duration of symptoms, functioning, and differential diagnosis due to a substance or other co-occurring condition.
Publication Date
1-26-2018
Publication Title
Evidence-Based Psychotherapy: The State of the Science and Practice
Number of Pages
157-188
Document Type
Article; Book Chapter
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119462996.ch7
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
85049761679 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85049761679
STARS Citation
Frueh, B. Christopher; Grubaugh, Anouk L.; Madan, Alok; Neer, Sandra M.; and Elhai, Jon D., "Evidence-Based Practice For Posttraumatic Stress Disorder" (2018). Scopus Export 2015-2019. 8845.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2015/8845