Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Dan J. Stein, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Matthew J. Friedman, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, and Executive Director, National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, US Department of Veterans Affairs, USA Carlos Blanco, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Preface xi List of Contributors xv 1 PTSD and Related Disorders 1 Matthew J. Friedman Commentaries 1.1 Walking the Line in Defining PTSD: Comprehensiveness Versus Core Features 35 Chris R. Brewin 1.2 Trauma-Related Disorders in the Clinical and Legal Settings 38 Elie G. Karam 1.3 Redefining PTSD in DSM-5: Conundrums and Potentially Unintended Risks 42 Alexander C. McFarlane 2 Epidemiology of PTSD 49 Carlos Blanco Commentaries 2.1 Challenges and Future Horizons in Epidemiological Research into PTSD 75 Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed and Sandro Galea 2.2 Preventing Mental Ill-Health Following Trauma 79 Helen Herrman 2.3 PTSD Epidemiology with Particular Reference to Gender 82 Marianne Kastrup 3 Neurobiology of PTSD 89 Arieh Y. Shalev, Asaf Gilboa and Ann M. Rasmusson Commentaries 3.1 Translational Theory-Driven Hypotheses and Testing Are Enhancing Our Understanding of PTSD and its Treatment 139 Brian H. Harvey 3.2 Precipitating and design approaches to PTSD 142 Eric Vermetten 4 Pharmacotherapy of PTSD 149 Dan J. Stein and Jonathan C. Ipser Commentaries 4.1 Critical View of the Pharmacological Treatment of Trauma 163 Marcelo F. Mello 4.2 Shortcomings and Future Directions of the Pharmacotherapy of PTSD 164 Michael Van Ameringen and Beth Patterson 4.3 Dire Need for New PTSD Pharmacotherapeutics 167 Murray B. Stein 5 Psychological Interventions for Trauma Exposure and PTSD 171 Richard A. Bryant Commentaries 5.1 Psychological Interventions for PTSD in Children 203 Lucy Berliner 5.2 Challenges in the Dissemination and Implementation of Exposure-Based CBT for the Treatment of Hispanics with PTSD 205 Rafael Kichic, Mildred Vera, and Mar a L. Reyes-Rabanillo 5.3 What Else Do We Need to Know about Evidence-Based Psychological Interventions for PTSD? 208 Karina Lovell 5.4 Another Perspective on Exposure Therapy for PTSD 211 Barbara Olasov Rothbaum 6 (Disaster) Public Mental Health 217 Joop de Jong Commentaries 6.1 An Excellent Model for Low- and Middle-Income Countries 263 Dean Ajdukovic 6.2 Disaster Mental Health and Public Health: An Integrative Approach to Recovery 266 Suresh Bada Math, Channaveerachari Naveen Kumar and Maria Christine Nirmala 6.3 Transcultural Aspects of Response to Disasters 272 Tarek A. Okasha 6.4 Disaster Public Health: Health Needs, Psychological First Aid and Cultural Awareness 275 Robert J. Ursano, Matthew N. Goldenberg, Derrick Hamaoka and David M. Benedek Index 281