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Praise for Clinician's Guide to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ""Rosen and Frueh's important book takes a huge leap toward clarity. The chapters are authored by leading experts in the field, and each addresses one of the pressing issues of the day. The tone is sensible and authoritative throughout, but always with a thoughtful ear toward clinical concerns and implications."" —George A. Bonanno, PhD Professor of Clinical Psychology Teachers College, Columbia University ""All clinicians and researchers dealing with anxiety disorders should have a copy of Rosen and Frueh's Clinician's Guide to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on their shelves. Moreover, they should read it from cover to cover. This compilation . . . is authoritative, very readable, and extremely well crafted. The issues are looked at from many vantage points, including assessment and treatment, cross-cultural, cognitive, and categorical/political."" —Michel Hersen, PhD, ABPP Editor, Journal of Anxiety Disorders Dean, School of Professional Psychology, Pacific University Clinician's Guide to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder brings together an international group of expert clinicians and researchers who address core issues facing mental health professionals, including: Assessing and treating trauma exposure and posttraumatic morbidity Controversies and clinical implications of differences of opinion among researchers on the definition and diagnosis of the condition Treating the full range of posttraumatic reactions Cross-cultural perspectives on posttraumatic stress

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Contributors to this impressive collection include Robert Spitzer, one of the architects of DSM-III, and Jerome C. Wakefield and Allan V. Horwitz, authors of The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder (Oxford University Press, 2007)... It is ironic that research spurred by the introduction of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has come to challenge almost every aspect of the construct's originating assumptions. These issues are carefully discussed: the idea of a specific aetiology; the distinctiveness of the supposed core symptoms; the loosening of the stressor criterion, which editor Gerald Rosen calls 'criterion creep'... Without a coherent position on the question of specific aetiology, the validity of PTSD rests largely on the distinctiveness of its clinical syndrome, yet its features overlap substantially with other psychiatric categories... This book interrogates the construction of PTSD and can serve as a case example of the way to critique the construction of psychiatric knowledge across the whole field. (Derek Summerfield, The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2011, 199:347)

Contributors to this impressive collection include Robert Spitzer, one of the architects of DSM-III, and Jerome C. Wakefield and Allan V. Horwitz, authors of The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder (Oxford University Press, 2007).... It is ironic that research spurred by the introduction of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has come to challenge almost every aspect of the construct's originating assumptions. These issues are carefully discussed: the idea of a specific aetiology; the distinctiveness of the supposed core symptoms; the loosening of the stressor criterion, which editor Gerald Rosen calls 'criterion creep'.... Without a coherent position on the question of specific aetiology, the validity of PTSD rests largely on the distinctiveness of its clinical syndrome, yet its features overlap substantially with other psychiatric categories.... This book interrogates the construction of PTSD and can serve as a case example of the way to critique the construction of psychiatric knowledge across the whole field. (Derek Summerfield, The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2011, 199:347) Since its inception in 1980, research and theory on PTSD have grown exponentially. Making sense of the burgeoning and often contradictory findings is no small feat, especially in the context of a demanding clinical schedule. Rosen and Frueh's important book takes a huge leap toward clarity. The chapters are authored by leading experts in the field and each address one of the pressing issues of the day. The tone is sensible and authoritative throughout, but always with a thoughtful ear toward clinical concerns and implications. The scope and clarity of the writing alone make this an invaluable resource. ?George A. Bonanno, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology Teachers College, Columbia University

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GERALD M. ROSEN, PhD, ABPP, is a clinical professor with the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the university's School of Medicine. He maintains a private practice as a clinical psychologist. He has published numerous articles on PTSD, served as editor of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Issues and Controversies (Wiley), and as co–guest editor with Dr. Frueh for a special issue on PTSD in the Journal of Anxiety Disorders. B.CHRISTOPHER FRUEH, PhD, is Director of Clinical Research at The Menninger Clinic and Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii. Formerly a clinician and director of a VA PTSD clinic in Charleston, South Carolina, his research interests are in clinical and mental health service delivery to trauma, both for veterans and civilians. He has seventeen years of experience in the field of traumatic stress and has served as primary investigator on twelve federally funded research grants relevant to this area.

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