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Culture and PTSD : Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Ethnography of Political Violence SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (435 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812291469
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Culture and PTSDDDC classification:
  • 616.85/210089
LOC classification:
  • RC552.P67 -- C85 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- PART I. INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- Introduction. Culture, Trauma, and PTSD -- Chapter 1. The Culturally Sensitive Assessment of Trauma: Eleven Analytic Perspectives, a Typology of Errors, and the Multiplex Models of Distress Generation -- PART II. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Chapter 2. Is PTSD a Transhistoric Phenomenon? -- Chapter 3. What Is "PTSD"? The Heterogeneity Thesis -- Chapter 4. From Shell Shock to PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury: A Historical Perspective on Responses to Combat Trauma -- PART III. CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES -- Chapter 5. Trauma in the Lifeworlds of Adolescents: Hard Luck and Trouble in the Land of Enchantment -- Chapter 6. Gendered Trauma and Its Effects: Domestic Violence and PTSD in Oaxaca -- Chapter 7. Exploring Pathways of Distress and Mental Disorders: The Case of the Highland Quechua Populations in the Peruvian Andes -- Chapter 8. Latinas' and Latinos' Risk for PTSD After Trauma Exposure: A Review of Sociocultural Explanations -- Chapter 9. Karma to Chromosomes: Studying the Biology of PTSD in a World of Culture -- Chapter 10. Square Pegs and Round Holes: Understanding Historical Trauma in Two Native American Communities -- Chapter 11. Culture, Trauma, and the Social Life of PTSD in Haiti -- Chapter 12. Is PTSD a "Good Enough" Concept for Postconflict Mental Health Care? Reflections on Work in Aceh, Indonesia -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Culture and PTSD examines the applicability of PTSD to cultural contexts beyond Europe and North America and details local responses to trauma and how they vary from PTSD as defined by the American Psychiatric Association.
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Cover -- Contents -- PART I. INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- Introduction. Culture, Trauma, and PTSD -- Chapter 1. The Culturally Sensitive Assessment of Trauma: Eleven Analytic Perspectives, a Typology of Errors, and the Multiplex Models of Distress Generation -- PART II. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Chapter 2. Is PTSD a Transhistoric Phenomenon? -- Chapter 3. What Is "PTSD"? The Heterogeneity Thesis -- Chapter 4. From Shell Shock to PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury: A Historical Perspective on Responses to Combat Trauma -- PART III. CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES -- Chapter 5. Trauma in the Lifeworlds of Adolescents: Hard Luck and Trouble in the Land of Enchantment -- Chapter 6. Gendered Trauma and Its Effects: Domestic Violence and PTSD in Oaxaca -- Chapter 7. Exploring Pathways of Distress and Mental Disorders: The Case of the Highland Quechua Populations in the Peruvian Andes -- Chapter 8. Latinas' and Latinos' Risk for PTSD After Trauma Exposure: A Review of Sociocultural Explanations -- Chapter 9. Karma to Chromosomes: Studying the Biology of PTSD in a World of Culture -- Chapter 10. Square Pegs and Round Holes: Understanding Historical Trauma in Two Native American Communities -- Chapter 11. Culture, Trauma, and the Social Life of PTSD in Haiti -- Chapter 12. Is PTSD a "Good Enough" Concept for Postconflict Mental Health Care? Reflections on Work in Aceh, Indonesia -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Culture and PTSD examines the applicability of PTSD to cultural contexts beyond Europe and North America and details local responses to trauma and how they vary from PTSD as defined by the American Psychiatric Association.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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