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Article Excerpt
Handbook of PTSD: Science and Practice by Matthew J. Friedman, Terence M. Keane and Patricia A. Resnick Guilford Publications New York, 2007, 592 pp., $75.00.
DOI: 10.1037/1091-7527.26.2.220
You come home from work and turn on the world news. On the screen are the events of the day, including the latest war casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, devastating natural disasters, and terrorist attacks across the globe (with the ever present specter of 9/11 looming in our consciousness). Maybe you tune in to the local news instead, and watch stories of senseless violence in the streets, sexual assault, deadly intimate partner violence, and child abuse.
Watching the news, it is easier to believe the studies that find 50% to 60% of adults in the U.S. are exposed to traumatic stress at some points in their lives,...
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