Treating Trauma Survivors With PTSD by Rachel Yehuda - 9781585620104

Treating Trauma Survivors With PTSDAuthor(s): Rachel Yehuda\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing, United States\nImprint: American Psychiatric Association Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781585620104, 978-1585620104\nSynopsis\nIn recent years, considerable research, as well as clinical\nguidelines based on study findings, has been published on the treatment of\nposttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A gap remains, however, between the\ncontrolled environments and protocols used in intervention research and the\nmore complex and often imperfect settings and situations that clinicians\nmust navigate in daily practice. Moreover, clinicians routinely see patients\nwhose comorbid substance abuse, self-destructive behavior, or medical\nillness would likely exclude them from research studies. In short, although\nthe extensive literature is certainly helpful in articulating the various\ntreatment modalities available to clinicians, the strength of the evidence\nfor.