Plenum series on stress and coping.; Language of science.
CONTENTS NOTE
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I. Conceptual issues. Addressing human response to war and atrocity : major challenges in research and practices and the limitations of Western psychiatric models / Derek Summerfield --;The severity of the trauma : issues about its role and posttraumatic stress disorder / Alexander C. McFarlane --;A cognitive processing formulation of posttrauma reactions / Mark Creamer --;Beyond the "victim" : secondary traumatic stress / Charles R. Figley and Rolf J. Kleber --;The deficiency of the concept of posttraumatic stress disorder when dealing with victims of human rights violations / David Becker. II. Societal and political issues. The development of treatment approaches for victims of human rights violations in Chile / Elizabeth Lira Kornfeld --;Cultural analysis of research findings on the political instability in the Philippines / Isabelita Z. Guiao --;Psychotherapeutic work with refugees / Guus Van der Veer --;The prevalence, trauma, and sociocultural causes of incestuous abuse of females : a human rights issue / Diana E.H. Russell --;What went wrong? : diagnostic and ethical problems in dealing with the effects of torture and repression in South Africa / Michael A. Simpson --;Health problems in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster : radiation, traumatic stress, or chronic stress? / Jan van den Bout, Johan M. Havenaar, and Ludmilla I. Meijler-Iljina. Ethical considerations. When political reality enters therapy : ethical considerations in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder / Daniel Brom and Eliezer Witztum --;Working through the Holocaust : still a task for Germany's youth? / Aor. Konrad Brendler --;Primary prevention of traumatic stress caused by war / Victor W. Sidel, Berthold P.R. Gersons, and Jos M.P. Weerts.
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The editors of Beyond Trauma: Cultural and Societal Dynamics have created a volume that goes beyond the individual's psychological dynamics of trauma, exploring its social, cultural, politica!, and ethical dimensions from an international as well as a global perspective.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Social aspects.
Psychic trauma -- Social aspects.
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
RC552
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P67
Book number
E358
1995
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
edited by Rolf J. Kleber, Charles R. Figley, and Berthold P.R. Gersons.