The present research examines posttraumatic resilience in extremely exposed children and adolescents based on interviews with 330 former Ugandan child soldiers (age = 11-17, female = 48.5%). Despite severe trauma exposure, 27.6% showed posttraumatic resilience as indicated by the absence of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and clinically significant behavioral and emotional problems. ...

Article: Examining Changes in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and Substance Use Among a Sample of Canadian Veterans Working with Service Dogs: An Exploratory Patient- Oriented Longitudinal Study

Acute stress disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis that may occur in patients within four weeks of a traumatic event. Features include anxiety, intense fear or helplessness, dissociative symptoms, reexperiencing the event, and avoidance behaviors. Persons with this disorder are at increased risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder. Other risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder inc...

BACKGROUND On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, the most powerful ever recorded in Japan, and a massive tsunami struck off the coast of the Sanriku region. A Disaster Medical Assistance Team, a mobile medical team with specialized training that is deployed during the acute phase of a disaster, was dispatched to areas with large-scale destruction and multiple injured and sick casualtie...

The amenability of posttraumatic stress disorders to compensation claims points to the need for validated means of assessing malingered posttraumatic stress. This study investigated the ability of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) to differentiate between genuine and malingered posttraumatic stress symptoms. Treatment-seeking patients with acute stress disorder (ASD, n =15), uncoached ...

the associations between exposure to traumatic events and psychiatric disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd), depression, and anxiety have been established. it is important that clinicians notice to this phenomenon and avoid from inappropriate interpretations and additional laboratory tests. here, a case of 45-year-old man with essential thrombocytosis developed after multiple p...