Don't Throw Out the Baby With the Bathwater (PTSD Is Not...

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......full-blown posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In fact, 2 months after the attacks...symptoms consistent with a diagnosis of acute PTSD.1 It is relatively easy these days to find...misrepresented, giving the impression that PTSD must be rampant and therefore overdiagnosed...

Latest evidence on PTSD may bring changes in DSM-V: subthreshold events...

Clinical Psychiatry News;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Manual of Mental Disorders, Dr. Michael First said at the annual meeting...suggesting that people can develop PTSD even in the absence of a high-magnitu...traumatic event. Does presence of a PTSD syndrome automatically imply...trauma? That is true only if PTSD can arise as a specific response...

Clinician's Guide to PTSD: A Cognitive-Behavioural Approach

Canadian Psychology;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...STEVEN TAYLOR Clinician's Guide to PTSD: A Cognitive-Behavioural Approach New York...SHERCLIFFE Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been brought to the attention of the...related to trauma. Treating people with PTSD is a challenging and difficult enterprise...

Correlates of Comorbid PTSD and Polysubstance Use in Sexual Assault...

Violence and Victims;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......NIAAA-funded study (2003-2004). Four groups ( N = 503) of victims: (1) post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-only, (2) PTSD and illicit drug use, (3) PTSD and drinking problems, and (4) PTSD and polysubstance use were compared using bivariate analyses...

Treating Psychological Trauma and PTSD

Rehabilitation Nursing;  September 1, 2002 ;     282 words ......editors of Treating Psychological Trauma and PTSD are recognized experts in the field of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the contributors are practicing...beneficial for the rehabilitation nurse. PTSD can be described in terms of allostasis...

Childbirth, pregnancy tied to PTSD, expert says. (Recognition is Low).

OB GYN News;  March 15, 2003 ;     467 words ......childbirth, but physician recognition of PTSD--in all patients, including women who have...that a difficult childbirth can result in PTSD, said Dr. Dell, who is a member of both...the individual, she said at a meeting on PTSD and collaborative care sponsored by the...

Getting help for PTSD

Call & Post;  November 11, 2004 ;     669 words ......cause a disorder known as post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. PTSD was first discovered when troops whom returned home from...from overseas has been found to suffer from symptoms of PTSD. "PTSD is a condition that can affect any person following...

PTSD found in 16% of teens a year after organ transplant.(posttraumatic...

Clinical Psychiatry News;  December 1, 2005 ;     401 words ......criteria for a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis, and 14% met two of the three...Medicine. Other studies have documented PTSD responses to childhood cancer, diabetes...tease out what specific factors lead to PTSD. Hence, the study included and compared...

PTSD after Childbirth; What is Unbearable in a Traumatic Delivery?

Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology;  December 1, 2007 ;     240 words ......illness and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms immediately after delivery and...STAI and IESr). Results: The incidence of PTSD in the early postpartum was as high as...of cases. Significant risk factors for PTSD were depression during the third trimester...

PTSD found in 16% of teens 1 year after organ transplant.(Adolescent...

Internal Medicine News;  August 1, 2005 ;     430 words ......criteria for a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis, and another 14% met two of...Medicine. Other studies have documented PTSD responses to childhood cancer, diabetes...tease out what specific factors lead to PTSD in adolescents. Hence, the study included...

CREW and VoteVets.org Respond to Congressional Testimony From VA on...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 4, 2008 ;     659 words ......instead of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), as a cost-cutting measure, today responded...as well as two veterans who had their PTSD claims denied by the VA, even though they...widespread misdiagnoses of veterans with PTSD in order to cut costs. It is unconscionable...

Nonclassic PTSD presentations need attention.(Adult Psychiatry)

Clinical Psychiatry News;  February 1, 2008 ;     583 words ......percentage of veterans correctly diagnosed with PTSD in primary care clinics, Dr. Magruder of...primary care physicians correctly identified PTSD in 47% of veterans who had the condition...a pretty dismal rate of recognition of PTSD of only 2% (Psychol. Med. 2001;31:555-60...

Nonclassic PTSD can complicate diagnosis.(Psychiatry)(Post-traumatic...

Internal Medicine News;  February 15, 2008 ;     606 words ......percentage of veterans correctly diagnosed with PTSD in primary care clinics, Dr. Magruder of...primary care physicians correctly identified PTSD in 47% of veterans who had the condition...a pretty dismal rate of recognition of PTSD of only 2% (Psychol. Med. 2001;31:555-60...

PTSD and HIV often comorbid.(News)

Clinical Psychiatry News;  February 1, 2008 ;     647 words ......disorders; 71 had posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); 91 had ASD; and 80 had depression. In some cases, overlap was found: Nine of the patients had both PTSD and depression; 12 had both PTSD and ASD. The same data indicate that women are more...

PTSD discrimination

Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  August 25, 2004 ;     260 words ......symptoms of post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression or anxiety." The reports lead...News featured a report on veterans with PTSD during which a staff member of the VA clinic...continues to deal with veterans diagnosed with PTSD from as far back as World War II. Research...