This volume presents an innovative psychobiological framework for understanding and treating PTSD.

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This volume presents an innovative psychobiological framework for understanding and treating PTSD. A major emphasis is the need to reformulate diagnostic criteria and treatment goals to reflect emerging knowledge about the complex pathways by which trauma disrupts people's lives. Within a holistic, organismic framework, the editors identify 65 PTSD symptoms contained within five (rather than the traditional three) symptom clusters, and spell out 80 target objectives for treatment. Expert contributors then provide detailed presentations of core therapeutic approaches, including acute posttraumatic interventions, cognitive-behavioral approaches, pharmacotherapy, group psychotherapy, and psychodynamic techniques, as well as approaches to working with specific populations, including children, refugees, and the dually diagnosed. The concluding section reviews and synthesizes all case material presented, examining which symptoms are addressed by each of the core approaches, which treatment goals are met, and which clients can most effectively be helped. Combining cutting-edge theoretical exposition with clear-cut recommendations for practice, this is an ideal resource for clinicians, students, and researchers.

"The construct of PTSD and its underlying theory have been challenged by recent advances in research and practice. This book makes a daring attempt to redraw the picture, representing a sort of conceptual avant-garde.The reader will find novelty, excitement, controversy, and much food for thought." -Arieh Y. Shalev, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel

"An authoritative volume that should be on the required reading list for any serious course on trauma, stress, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), victimology, or abnormal psychology or clinical psychology practicum....It broadens the reader's perceptions of psychopathology and provides a much-needed lens for understanding both catastrophic trauma and the inevitable, pervasive, smaller--but common--trauma that goes unrecognized in everyday life.[Chapters] are informed by the latest theory and clinical research and describe a broad array of effective interventions and fine-tuned treatment goals." -Psychiatric Services

467 Pages; 6 x 9

I. Theory, Models, and Clinical Paradigms of Treatment

1. Treatment Goals for PTSD, John D. Wilson, Matthew J. Friedman, and Jacob D. Lindy

2. A Holistic, Organismic Approach to Healing Trauma and PTSD, John P. Wilson, Matthew J. Friedman, and Jacob D. Lindy

II. Clinical Treatment of PTSD

3. An Overview of Clinical Considerations and Principles in the Treatment of PTSD, John P. Wilson

4. Allostatic versus Empirical Perspectives on Pharmacotherapy for PTSD, Matthew J. Friedman

5. An Allostatic Approach to the Psychodynamic Understanding of PTSD, Jacob D. Lindy and John P. Wilson

6. Acute Posttraumatic Interventions,Beverley Raphael and Matthew Dobson

7. Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches to PTSD,Lori A. Zoellner, Lee A. Fitzgibbons, and Edna B. Foa

8. Group Psychotherapy for PTSD, David W. Foy, Paula P. Schnurr, Daniel S. Weiss, Melissa S. Wattenberg, Shirley M. Glynn, Charles R. Marmar, and Fred D. Gusman

III. Clinical Treatment Approaches for Special Trauma Populations

9. Treatment of Persons with Complex PTSD and Other Trauma-Related Disruptions of the Self, Laurie Anne Pearlman

10. Dual Diagnosis and Treatment of PTSD, Alexander C. McFarlane

11. Cross-Cultural Treatment of PTSD,J. David Kinzie

12. Treatment Methods for Childhood Trauma, Kathleen Nader

13. Treatment of PTSD in Families and Couples, Laurie Harkness and Noka Zador

14. Treatment of PTSD in Persons with Severe Mental Illness, Kim T. Mueser and Stanley D. Rosenberg

IV. Case History Analysis and Practical Considerations

15. Case History Analysis of the Treatments for PTSD: Lessons Learned, Jacob D. Lindy, John P. Wilson, and Matthew J. Friedman

16. Practical Considerations in the Treatment of PTSD: Guidelines for Practitioners, John P. Wilson, Matthew J. Friedman, and Jacob D. Lindy

17. Respecting the Trauma Membrane: Above All, Do No Harm, Jacob D. Lindy and John P. Wilson

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