Beyond trauma : cultural and societal dynamics /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
Other Authors:	Kleber, R. J. (Rolf Jan), Figley, Charles R., 1944-, Gersons, Berthold P. R., 1945-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Plenum Press, [1995]
Series:	Plenum series on stress and coping. Language of science.
Subjects:	Post-traumatic stress disorder > Social aspects. Psychic trauma > Social aspects. Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic. Human Rights. Social Medicine. Trauma's (psychologie) Posttraumatische stressstoornis. Sociale aspecten. Culturele aspecten. Névroses traumatiques > Aspect social. Traumatisme psychique > Aspect social. Posttraumatisches Stresssyndrom. Soziale Probleme. Sozialpsychologie.
Online Access:	Publisher description Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

I. Conceptual issues. Addressing human response to war and atrocity : major challenges in research and practices and the limitations of Western psychiatric models / Derek Summerfield
The severity of the trauma : issues about its role and posttraumatic stress disorder / Alexander C. McFarlane
A cognitive processing formulation of posttrauma reactions / Mark Creamer
Beyond the "victim" : secondary traumatic stress / Charles R. Figley and Rolf J. Kleber
The deficiency of the concept of posttraumatic stress disorder when dealing with victims of human rights violations / David Becker.
II. Societal and political issues. The development of treatment approaches for victims of human rights violations in Chile / Elizabeth Lira Kornfeld
Cultural analysis of research findings on the political instability in the Philippines / Isabelita Z. Guiao
Psychotherapeutic work with refugees / Guus Van der Veer
The prevalence, trauma, and sociocultural causes of incestuous abuse of females : a human rights issue / Diana E.H. Russell
What went wrong? : diagnostic and ethical problems in dealing with the effects of torture and repression in South Africa / Michael A. Simpson
Health problems in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster : radiation, traumatic stress, or chronic stress? / Jan van den Bout, Johan M. Havenaar, and Ludmilla I. Meijler-Iljina.
Ethical considerations. When political reality enters therapy : ethical considerations in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder / Daniel Brom and Eliezer Witztum
Working through the Holocaust : still a task for Germany's youth? / Aor. Konrad Brendler
Primary prevention of traumatic stress caused by war / Victor W. Sidel, Berthold P.R. Gersons, and Jos M.P. Weerts.