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Traumatic stress--an overview of diagnostic evolution and clinical treatment
1Department of Psychiatry F Edward Hebert School of Medicine Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
This paper provides an overview of recent advances in the study of traumatic stress, with a special focus on the categorical and conceptual evolution in aetiological, diagnostic classification of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A review update on psychological and pharmacological therapies relevant to the management of PTSD, and the trend towards a multi-layered, biopsychosocial approach is discussed. This review also includes an update of the risk factors and mediating factors associated with post traumatic responses.