Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders

Both academically rigorous and clinically practical, Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders is fully informed by the new DSM-5 category that includes adjustment disorders, acute stress disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Stress and trauma have long been recognized as playing a role in the etiology of certain psychiatric disorders, and this book delineates normal and pathological responses to stress, providing a conceptual framework for understanding trauma- and stressor-related disorders. An individual's response to stress depends on numerous genetic, developmental, cognitive, psychological, and neurobiological risk and protective factors, and these are examined from both a scientific and clinical perspective. Central to the book's utility is its presentation of clinical vignettes that help the reader to contextualize the information presented and model effective clinical skills.

ContributorsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Borderline Between Normal and Pathological ResponsesChapter 2. Limits to the Phenomenological Approach to the Diagnosis of Adjustment DisordersChapter 3. Conceptual Framework and Controversies in Adjustment DisordersChapter 4. Adjustment Disorders: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and TreatmentChapter 5. Acute Stress DisorderChapter 6. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and TreatmentChapter 7. Disintegrated Experience: Dissociation and StressChapter 8. Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder and Its TreatmentChapter 9. Therapeutic Adaptations of Resilience: Helping Patients Overcome the Effects of Trauma and StressChapter 10. Medical-Legal Aspects of Trauma and Stressor-Related DisordersChapter 11. ICD-10, ICD-11, and DSM-5: New Developments and the CrosswalksEpilogueIndex