Assessing Psychological Trauma and PTSD

by Wilson, John P.; Keane, Terence M.

• ISBN13: 9781572301627
• ISBN10: 1572301627
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-11-08
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

This comprehensive volume reviews the theoretical rationale, scientific validity, and clinical applicability of a wide range of instruments and techniques used to assess psychological trauma and PTSD. Helping clinicians and researchers stay completely up-to-date and organized in their thinking about assessment, leading experts describe and evaluate numerous self-report measures, structured interviews, and standardized batteries, in addition to psychophysiological, epidemiological, and neuropsychological approaches. Chapters explore assessment issues specific to such stressors as childhood trauma and abuse, military-related PTSD, trauma related to medical illness, and traumatic bereavement. Also considered are methodological challenges and limitations raised by age, sex, ethnic, and other differences in victim and survivor populations.

This comprehensive and up-to-date book brings together leading authorities to cover the entire spectrum of instruments, techniques, standardized measures, and procedures used to diagnose and measure the psychological and physiological aftermath of trauma. Chapters review the research literature, discuss relevant conceptual issues, and provide practical guidelines for assessing PTSD and dissociative disorders in a wide range of clinical populations. Special topics covered include issues of gender, culture, and ethnicity in assessment; assessment of traumatized children and adult survivors of abuse; traumatic bereavement; and trauma-related disorders in medical settings.

Author Biography

John P. Wilson, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Cleveland State University and Director of the Center for Stress and Trauma in Cleveland, Ohio. An internationally recognized expert on PTSD, he is Past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Terence M. Keane, Ph.D., is Director of the National Center for PTSD's Division of Behavioral Science, Chief of Psychology at the Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center/Outpatient Clinic, and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. The current President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Trinity College Dublin, he has lectured internationally on the assessment and treatment of PTSD.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
John P. Wilson
I. Assessing Traumatic Stress Syndromes: Theory, Standardized Measures, and Physiological Techniques
Standardized Self-Report Measures of Civilian Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	7	(36)
Fran H. Norris
Jasmin K. Riad
Psychological Assessment of Child Abuse Effects in Adults	43	(26)
John Briere
Psychophysiological Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	69	(29)
Scott P. Orr
Danny G. Kaloupek
Psychometric Theory in the Development of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Assessment Tools	98	(41)
Frank W. Weathers
Terence M. Keane
Lynda A. King
Daniel W. King
II. Assessing Traumatic Reactions among Victim and Survivor Populations
Epidemiological Methods for Assessing Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	139	(21)
William E. Schlenger
John A. Fairbank
B. Kathleen Jordan
Juesta M. Caddell
Trauma and Medical Illness: Assessing Trauma-Related Disorders in Medical Settings	160	(32)
Bonnie L. Green
Steven A. Epstein
Janice L. Krupnick
Julia H. Rowland
Gender Issues in the Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	192	(47)
Jessica Wolfe
Rachel Kimerling
Cross-Cultural and Multiethnic Assessment of Trauma	239	(28)
Spero M. Manson
Assessment of Military-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	267	(24)
Terence M. Keane
Elana Newman
Susan M. Orsillo
Assessing Traumatic Experiences in Children	291	(58)
Kathleen O. Nader
Assessing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Couples and Families	349	(24)
John P. Wilson
Robert R. Kurtz
Assessing Traumatic Bereavement and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	373	(26)
Beverley Raphael
Nada Martinek
III. Assessing Traumatic Reactions, Dissociation, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
The Impact of Event Scale--Revised	399	(13)
Daniel S. Weiss
Charles R. Marmar
The Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnaire	412	(17)
Charles R. Marmar
Daniel S. Weiss
Thomas J. Metzler
Assessing Posttraumatic Dissociation with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders	429	(19)
Marlene Steinberg
Neuropsychological Assessment in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	448	(45)
Jeffrey A. Knight
Structured Clinical Interview Techniques	493	(19)
Daniel S. Weiss
Thematic Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Reactions	512	(17)
Susan Roth
Leslie Lebowitz
Ruth R. DeRosa
Use of the Rorschach in Assessing Trauma	529	(16)
Patti Levin
Bruce Reis
Author Index	545	(22)
Subject Index	567