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Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health

E-BookEPUB2 - DRM Adobe / EPUBE-Book
400 Seiten
Englisch
John Wiley & Sonserschienen am12.05.20161. Auflage
The new, quick reference for understanding Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
The Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder uses clear, highly accessible language to comprehensively guide the reader through posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related issues. This concise, informative reference provides a complete overview of the history of the field, diagnosis, treatment, research, emerging trends, and other critical information about PTSD. Examining both theory and practice, the text offers a multifaceted look at the disorder, outlining biological, cognitive, psychosocial, psychodynamic, integrated, and other relevant approaches.

Like all the books in the Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health Series, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder features a compact, easy-to-use format that includes:
Vignettes and case illustrations
A practical approach that emphasizes real-life treatment over theory
Resources for specific readers such as clinicians, students, or patients

In addition to the fundamentals of treatment, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder covers some of today's most important and cutting-edge issues in the field, such as war and terrorism; PTSD in children, adolescents, and families; professional and ethical issues; and relevant positive psychological findings. This straightforward resource is admirably suited for a wide variety of readers including students and practicing mental health professionals, as well as first responders, military personnel, and other individuals that regularly deal with traumatic situations and their aftermath.


Adam Cash, PSYD, is a psychologist in private practice in Pomona, California. He is an adjunct professor at Chapman University.
Irving B. Weiner, PHD, is the Series Editor for the Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health. He is a prolific author and the editor of the award-winning, twelve-volume Handbook of Psychology, also from Wiley.mehr
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KlappentextThe new, quick reference for understanding Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
The Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder uses clear, highly accessible language to comprehensively guide the reader through posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related issues. This concise, informative reference provides a complete overview of the history of the field, diagnosis, treatment, research, emerging trends, and other critical information about PTSD. Examining both theory and practice, the text offers a multifaceted look at the disorder, outlining biological, cognitive, psychosocial, psychodynamic, integrated, and other relevant approaches.

Like all the books in the Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health Series, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder features a compact, easy-to-use format that includes:
Vignettes and case illustrations
A practical approach that emphasizes real-life treatment over theory
Resources for specific readers such as clinicians, students, or patients

In addition to the fundamentals of treatment, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder covers some of today's most important and cutting-edge issues in the field, such as war and terrorism; PTSD in children, adolescents, and families; professional and ethical issues; and relevant positive psychological findings. This straightforward resource is admirably suited for a wide variety of readers including students and practicing mental health professionals, as well as first responders, military personnel, and other individuals that regularly deal with traumatic situations and their aftermath.


Adam Cash, PSYD, is a psychologist in private practice in Pomona, California. He is an adjunct professor at Chapman University.
Irving B. Weiner, PHD, is the Series Editor for the Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health. He is a prolific author and the editor of the award-winning, twelve-volume Handbook of Psychology, also from Wiley.
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Erscheinungsjahr2016
Erscheinungsdatum12.05.2016
Auflage1. Auflage
Seiten400 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
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Leseprobe
INTRODUCTION

Trauma is a topic with which many people find themselves unfortunately familiar. Along with death and taxes, it would seem that nobody is immune from the reaches of a traumatic loss or traumatic event. A seemingly universal constant, trauma has touched many of us, challenging our basic sense of a secure world around us. Is it safe? Will I ever be safe again? Is disaster just around the corner?

As exciting as it has been to write this book, the topic itself has brought up strong emotions. The events and situations that have come up in this study of trauma and traumatic stress have been powerful evocateurs of my own fears and concerns for a safe world, sometimes leading me to wonder exactly how just and fair our world really is.

But as constant as the barrage of trauma has been, so, too, has been our pursuit to cope, overcome, and rise above these tragedies. One could argue that history itself is a collection of trauma stories and different cultures and peoples experiences as they struggle. The recent past century alone, the twentieth century, gives us countless examples of collective traumas on an incredible and horrific scale. But trauma is as personal as it is collective. Traumatic experiences reach deep into our psychological existence, straining our bodies on a level unexplainable in words and in turn giving us words and images that may stay with us or haunt us for the rest of our lives. The ancient Greeks seemed to embrace trauma in their tragedies, facing soberly the reality of trauma s centrality in our lives and our responses to it, while attempting to master this inevitable reality through an ancient form of stress-inoculation training and behavioral rehearsal.

Fear and safety lie at the heart of trauma and traumatic stress. Erik Erikson placed a basic sense of trust and safety at the root of psychological development. Our cognitive and intellectual processes work hard to order and make predictable the world and its whizzing and whirling objects and subjects around us. The unknown is a central theme throughout literature, theatre, and film. From chaos comes fear, and safety lies in predictability and organization. When we are threatened, our fundamental sense of survival as a basic organism is activated. Traumas challenge our will to survive.

Unfortunately, as many of us again know all too well, the stress of trauma can linger on long after the strain of a specific challenge has abated. The posttraumatic effects of a traumatic event or situation can shape our lives and psychological functioning in powerful ways. For some, these changes and effects become absorbed into one s daily life, leaving only a trace. For others, daily existence is plagued by an event that may be as fresh in the present as it was 1 year, 5 years, or 20 years ago.

When I was in graduate school, a classmate of mine was working on a research project with veterans from the Vietnam War. Her job was to conduct prestudy interviews for subject selection. One day she was interviewing a Vietnam veteran, diagnosed with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). As one might expect, many of the interview questions were related to his service and experience in the war. During the interview, the phone rang in the office they were located in. At that instant, the man jumped and began to weep uncontrollably. The memories of the war were fresh. The phone startled him. This was in 1998, 30 years after he saw combat.

Both my personal and professional life have presented me with countless stories of tragedy and trauma. Sometimes mental health professionals will joke about going into the various fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, or counseling in order to figure ourselves out. I haven t figured myself out yet, so I don t know if that is why I went into the field. But there is one particular event that stands out as, let s just say, a point of interest in my professional interest in PTSD.

While in college, I traveled to Mexico to study Spanish at a language institute. I went with a group of students, and while there each of us lived with various families affiliated with the school. There were students from all over the world. One day, a group of students took a local bus to a shopping district. While on the trip, the bus was robbed by several bandits in masks, toting machine guns. In addition to the robbery, at least two of the female students were sexually assaulted.

The buzz on campus after the robbery and assault was intense. Even those of us who weren t there felt the intense fear and a sense of violation. My own emotional reactions ranged from anger to fear: Those bastards! and I m not getting on a bus for any reason! But it wasn t so much my own reaction that I remember being of most interest; it was the variety of reactions. Some people were shocked and overwhelmed. Some were numb. Some laughed. That s right- laughed! Still many others dismissed it as no big deal. At the risk of sounding like I m making this up for literary purposes, I remember taking keen notice of these varied reactions and was truly intrigued in finding out how each was possible. I also remember feeling extremely sad and concerned for the victims and felt a strong urge to help, only at that time I had no idea how. My desire to help and having no knowledge of how to help beyond a compassionate and supportive response is likely playing out in my current interest in PTSD. Ah, the unconscious is a powerful thing!

I know for a fact, however, that if you had asked me at that time if I would ever write a book about PTSD, I would have looked at you with a face of dread and fear. At that time, I thought I didn t know anything about trauma and posttraumatic reactions. Little did I know that if you ve been exposed to it, you know something about it. In a way, that makes all of us pros of sorts. Some of us have formal and professional training and experience. Some of us have first-hand experience. You don t have to have a PhD to have access to knowledge about trauma.

That is exactly what this book is about-access! Back in Mexico I could have used a quick guide or reference to address the issues, thoughts, and concerns at the time. Maybe I could have offered some advice or more proficient help. I had nothing at my disposal. Of course, I can t imagine I would have carried a Concise Guide to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CGPTSD) around with me like an item on my bat utility belt, but I can imagine it being available in the school library. And of course there would be other books in the library about PTSD and trauma, wouldn t there? Yes, of course. But could they provide me with what I wanted to know in a quick and efficient manner? If only someone had written this book sooner.
The Purpose of the CGPTSD

Few clinicians or mental health professionals can say they have never had a patient or client who presented with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Whether the trauma is war, car accident, or medical event, most mental health professionals will at some point be faced with the challenge of helping a traumatized person regain his or her sense of trust and safety. Professionals and lay people alike often find themselves needing more information on a particular disorder or case. Yet the seeming paradox of this information age is that there is sometimes too much information out there. Wait a minute, too much information? How can there be such as thing as too much information? Well, in an absolute sense there cannot be. However, the rate at which information is generated today is unprecedented. It s extremely difficult, if not impossible, to keep up. In true modern fashion, most us need and often look for a shortcut.

I see each of us in this information-driven world as synthesizers of vast amounts of knowledge. But bringing together the totality of information one wants on a particular topic in a concise and useable form is a daunting task. There is so much information to be condensed and so little time. That is exactly the role of a book like the Concise Guide to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. The guiding principles of the CGPTSD are concise and useful. The CGPTSD strives to be brief, eliminating superfluous and excessively elaborative detail, while delivering solid information. Each section and chapter stands on its own in order to eliminate the typical necessity of having to read chapters the knowledge seeker does not have the time for nor the interest in. By being concise, this book saves the knowledge seeker valuable time and energy. One need not be thoroughly intrigued by the topic of PTSD in order to benefit from this book. Because it is a guide, it is intended to be a roadmap, essentially useful by getting you to where you want to be without unnecessary detours and sightseeing. Keep in mind, however, that you can sightsee if you wish. There is plenty of information to attract the wandering mind. But if you want something specific, all you have to do is go the section you want to know more about. If you want to know about treatment of PTSD, go to the treatment section. If you want to know what the newest research is focusing on, go to the newest research section.

I have a mechanic friend that came over to my house after I had moved. I was apologetic about how my office looked and how even though I had increased my office space seemingly exponentially, I still didn t have enough room, and I recall making some self-deprecating comment about having too many books and articles. His response was inspirational, not to mention a good...
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Autor

Adam Cash, PSYD, is a psychologist in private practice in
Pomona, California. He is an adjunct professor at Chapman
University.

Irving B. Weiner, PHD, is the Series Editor for the
Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health. He is a prolific
author and the editor of the award-winning, twelve-volume
Handbook of Psychology, also from Wiley.