individual Differences in Posttraumatic Response: Problems With the Adversity-distress Connection - Hardcover

Bowman, Marilyn L.

 
9780805827132: individual Differences in Posttraumatic Response: Problems With the Adversity-distress Connection
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0805827137 ISBN 13: 9780805827132
Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

This book challenges the assumptions of the event-dominated DSM model of posttraumatic stress disorder. Bowmam examines a series of questions directed at the current mental health model, reviewing the empirical literature. She finds that the dose-response assumptions are not supported; the severity of events is not reliable associated with PTSD, but is more reliably associated with important pre-event risk factors. She reviews evidence showing the greater role of individual differences including trait negative affectivity, belief systems, and other risk factors, in comparison with event characteristics, in predicting the disorder. The implications for treatment are significant, as treatment protocols reflect the DSM assertion that event exposure is the cause of the disorder, implying it should be the focus of treatment. Bowman also suggests that an event focus in diagnosis anad treatment risks increases the disorder because it does not provide sufficient attention to important pre-exisiting risk factors.

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Marilyn L. Bowman

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0805827137
ISBN 13 
9780805827132
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
198

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