Assessing Psychological Trauma and PTSD

John P. Wilson, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Cleveland State University and Director of the Center for Stress and Trauma in Cleveland, Ohio. An internationally recognized expert on PTSD, he is Past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Terence M. Keane, Ph.D., is Director of the National Center for PTSD's Division of Behavioral Science, Chief of Psychology at the Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center/Outpatient Clinic, and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. The current President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Trinity College Dublin, he has lectured internationally on the assessment and treatment of PTSD.

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