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Article: New post-traumatic stress disorders findings from M.R. Spoont and co-authors described.
- Article from:
- Mental Health Weekly Digest
- Article date:
- November 2, 2009
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According to recent research from the United States, "Despite the ongoing debate about its legitimacy as a diagnostic entity, posttraumatic stress disorder ( PTSD) continues to be the prevailing model for posttrauma suffering in Western societies."
"In this article, we examine how U. S. veterans came to conceptualize their posttrauma suffering as reflecting the mental disorder of PTSD. We describe the criteria veterans used to evaluate the potential clinical importance of their posttrauma reactions, and the process by which they came to label these reactions as PTSD," wrote M.R. Spoont and colleagues (see also Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders).
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