Assessing and Treating Trauma and PTSD

This reader-friendly book masterfully explores the nature of traumatic stress and provides spot-on assessment tools for various trauma-related criteria. The second edition updates significant trauma related diagnoses, as well as new theories, research and therapeutic techniques. This collection of physiological and psychological techniques provides professions with a practical, eclectic approach to a variety of treatments.

-“High-Risk” indicators for PTSD
-Changes from DSM-IV-TR to DSM-5
-DSM-5 predictors for PTSD
-Dissociation and treatments
-Attachment theory and neurobiology of broken attachment bonds
-Nutritional supplement update for the prevention and treatment of PTSD
-Current psychopharmacological studies for PTSD
-The relationship as therapy