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PTSD Annotated Bibliography

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4 March 2017

PTSD Annotated Bibliography

Post-Trauma Stress Disorder (PTSD) happens in some instances after a traumatic event. Traumatic events are defined as something that happens to you that is considered to be scary or horrible. Traumatic events can include sexual trauma/violence, serious accidents, combat, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters such as fire, floods, and eathquakes. An individual may feel during the event that they are in danger for their lives. Sometimes the individual may feel out of control of what is happening. However, going thru a traumatic event does not always mean that you will have signs and symptoms of PTSD.

i. Social Psychology

ii. Contemporary issues in psychology

iii. Crisis and emergency intervention

iv. Psychopathology

This paper provides articles and their explanations grouped within these four main topics, which provides information relating to the condition of PTSD.

Social Psychology Topic

Kaczmarek, M., & Zawadzki, B. (2012). Exposure to trauma, emotional reactivity, and its interaction as predictors of the intensity of PTSD symptoms in the aftermath of motor vehicle accidents. Journal of Russian & East European Psychology, 50(3), 47. doi:10.2753/RPO1061-0405500303

This article provides information on post-traumatic stress disorder obtained from individuals that have been involved in car accidents. The individuals utilized for this article were individuals that experienced there stress full situation during a car accident. The authors of the article explain that majority of the individuals attain the condition due to the situation that they believe they were in during the occurrence of the accident. The article involves an original study that involves experimentation of how the individuals were exposed to trauma due to the occurrence of the accident.

O'connor, M., Lasgaard, M., Spindler, H., & Elklit, A. (2007). The impact of different diagnostic criteria on PTSD prevalence: A comparison of PTSD prevalence using the DSM-IV and ICD-10 PTSD-criteria on a population of 242 danish social work students. Nordic Psychology, 59(4), 317-331. doi:10.1027/1901-2276.59.4.317

This article explains that a large number of individuals show signs of PTSD for many different reasons and situations. Unlike many other diseases, an individual can obtain the PTSD condition from accidents, an action that is committed to him or her by another individual like rape, or even a bad decision that he or she makes. The impact that these diseases and conditions have on such individuals are significantly different. Trauma that is brought about by rape, for example, is significantly different with the trauma that is brought about by events like accidents. The author examines the causes of trauma and in their article explains the difference in effect that the individuals from various sources of the condition obtain. This article is thus significantly important and beneficial for this topic.

Horesh, D., Solomon, Z., & Ein-Dor, T. (2013). DELAYED-ONSET PTSD AFTER COMBAT: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL RESOURCES: Delayed-onset PTSD after combat. Journal of Community Psychology, 41(5), 532-548. doi:10.1002/jcop.21555

This source provides information concerning soldiers who obtain the PTSD condition due to the effect of their involvement in the war. It provides information obtained from research activities that involved about 675 Israeli veterans that obtained the PTSD condition and 369 individuals.

Ullman, S. E., & Peter‐Hagene, L. (2014). social reactions to sexual assault disclosure, coping, perceived control, and ptsd symptoms in sexual assault victims. Journal of Community Psychology, 42(4), 495-508. doi:10.1002/jcop.21624

The source was provided with an aim of providing information concerning victims of sexual assault. Among others, this event is considered to be the most significant cause of the PTSD condition and thus the authors to the article provided this article to cover the condition and the means through which it affects individuals. The authors utilized path analysis to provide information concerning it and a large number of individuals who have survived the victimization of sexual assault.

Gros, D. F., Flanagan, J. C., Korte, K. J., Mills, A. C., Brady, K. T., & Back, S. E. (2016). Relations among social support, PTSD symptoms, and substance use in veterans. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 30(7), 764-770. doi:10.1037/adb0000205

The article provides information concerning the means through which veterans deal with the problem of PSTD. They explain that PTSD is among the most common conditions and problems that veterans face. They then provide the most important and appropriate way that these individuals can manage to handle the problem and condition of PTSD before it occurs and the most appropriate treatment strategies that they can utilize for treatment.

Freedman, S. A., Gilad, M., Yael L E Ankri, Roziner, I., & Shalev, A. Y. (2015). Social relationship satisfaction and PTSD: Which is the chicken and which is the egg? European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 6(1), Article 28864-Article 28864. doi:10.3402/ejpt.v6.28864

This article specifically provides information concerning the effect that individuals with PTSD individuals experience due to the condition. The authors involve in a research study through which thy aim to determine the means through which individuals with PTSD are impacted by this condition. The individuals explain the impact of this condition and the means through which they can manage to improve these conditions. The individuals whose conditions are utilized by this study are trauma survivors among other individuals who have experienced traumatizing experiences. After the study, the authors explain that SRS effect was significant for the majority of the individuals with PTSD. Thys conclude that both the conditions of SRS and PTSD have a significant relationship.

Contemporary Issues in Psychology

This topic provides information concerning the issues that are currently occurring involving psychology. Since the topic under study is PTSD, the following articles provide information of occurring issues of PTSD.

Asmundson, G. J. G., & Hadjistavropolous, H. D. (2006). Addressing shared vulnerability for comorbid PTSD and chronic pain: A cognitive-behavioral perspective. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 13(1), 8-16. doi:10.1016/j.cbpra.2005.03.001

This article provides information concerning an emerging issue, which was recently discovered about PTSD. The authors carry out a research that is aimed at determining an existing relationship between the Comorbid PTSD and Chronic Pain. The authors explain that it is common for the individuals who attain the PTSD to also have other issues that emerge. Among others, the issues include chronic pain. The authors provide information and explanation concerning the reasons why the chronic pain occurs for these individuals.

Risbrough, V. B., & Stein, M. B. (2012;2011;). Neuropharmacology special issue on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD): Current state of the art in clinical and preclinical PTSD research [editorial]. Neuropharmacology, 62(2), 539-541. doi:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2011.08.021

This article provides information concerning a recent research study based on traumatic occurrences that cause PTSD and the means through which the individuals who attain this disorder can be treated effectively and completely. The information is aimed at helping individuals avoid involvement in certain activities, which may lead to their attaining of this condition. The article provides significant information concerning research findings of much better and simplified ways through which individuals with this condition can be treated.

Vujanovic, A. A., Bonn-Miller, M. O., & Petry, N. M. (2016). Co-occurring posttraumatic stress and substance use: Emerging research on correlates, mechanisms, and treatments—Introduction to the special issue. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 30(7), 713-719. doi:10.1037/adb0000222

This article provides an explanation that recent research has shown that certain condition like PSTD and substance abuse are co-occurring. This research provides significant information concerning the means through which treatment of these conditions should be enhanced in order to ensure that individuals who attain them manage to be completely cured of the condition. The authors propose a long-term therapy to address this issue completely and ensure that all individuals manage to improve completely without having to obtain those conditions again.

Gilbert, K. S., Kark, S. M., Gehrman, P. R., & Bogdanova, Y. (2015). Sleep disturbances, TBI and PTSD: Implications for treatment and recovery. Clinical Psychology Review, 40, 195-212. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2015.05.008

This article explains about the emerging issues of PTSD in relation to other conditions that include the traumatic brain injury (TBI) and sleeping problems, which affect military individuals significantly. The authors to this article explain the relationship that exists between these conditions and the extent to which individuals who attain one condition also obtain the other conditions. This information help individuals to understand the importance of involving in early treatment after obtaining one condition, in order to ensure that they improve.

Street, A. E., Vogt, D., & Dutra, L. (2009). A new generation of women veterans: Stressors faced by women deployed to iraq and afghanistan. Clinical Psychology Review, 29(8), 685-694. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2009.08.007

The authors to this article explain that for a long time, majority of the veteran that are the well-known regardless of the country which they fight for are men. Recently however, Asian freedom fighting organizations like the Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) involve a large number of women. The authors of the article explain that these individuals have the need to be well treated and understood in a much better way.

Cukor, J., Spitalnick, J., Difede, J., Rizzo, A., & Rothbaum, B. O. (2009). Emerging treatments for PTSD. Clinical Psychology Review, 29(8), 715-726. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2009.09.001

This article provides information concerning the recently explained and proven methods through which individuals can be treated PTSD effectively. This condition has been in existence for a long time. The authors of the article explain that a large number of individuals have been suffering from the condition for a long time. Due to this reason, treatment of the condition has been developed over time. The article thus provides information concerning the most recent treatment procedures that are different from the procedures that physicians were utilizing earlier.

Crisis and Emergency Intervention

Crisis and emergency intervention simply refers to a process through which individuals manage to implement strategies that help in managing incidences. With regard to PTSD victims, the majority of them involved in actions that cause them require intervention and emergency strategies. This section provides articles that explain about crisis and emergency intervention strategies related to the PTSD management.

Coldiron, M. E., Llosa, A. E., Roederer, T., Casas, G., & Moro, M. (2013). Brief mental health interventions in conflict and emergency settings: An overview of four médecins sans frontières - france programs. Conflict and Health, 7(1), 23-23. doi:10.1186/1752-1505-7-23

This article provides information concerning interventions that are based on all forms of mental health issues. Mental health issues among others include issues that relate to the brains of an individual. Among other conditions, include the condition of PTSD, since stress is among the many mental aspects that individuals face. This article therefore provides important information on the strategies through which individuals suffering from PTSD can utilize in cases of emergency.

Mills, L. D., Mills, T. J., Macht, M., Levitan, R., Wulf, A. D., & Afonso, N. S. (2012). Post-traumatic stress disorder in an emergency department population one year after hurricane katrina. Journal of Emergency Medicine, 43(1), 76-82. doi:10.1016/j.jemermed.2011.06.124

This article simply provide information concerning cases of individuals that have faced the condition of PTSD. After analyzing the various diverse cases of different individuals, the authors then provide information concerning the most appropriate way through which these individuals can improve their conditions and manage to obtain better lives despite the conditions through the utilization of certain interventions and medical assistance.

Rothbaum, B. O., Kearns, M. C., Price, M., Malcoun, E., Davis, M., Ressler, K. J., . . . Houry, D. (2012). Early intervention may prevent the development of posttraumatic stress disorder: A randomized pilot civilian study with modified prolonged exposure. Biological Psychiatry, 72(11), 957-963. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.06.002

This source provides information concerning the strategy of early intervention, which individuals can utilize to improve their conditions. The authors begin by explaining that PTSD is a condition that majority of the individuals attain without any form of expectation and thus due to that reason, they do not have time to prepare for the condition. The authors then explain that despite this reason, people can manage to establish early intervention mechanism through which they can protect themselves from obtaining PTSD condition. This mechanism should be established immediately individual experiences any form of a condition that might cause trauma, even before he or she attains any side effects of the event.

Price, M., Kearns, M. C., Houry, D., & Rothbaum, B. O. (2014). Emergency department predictors of posttraumatic stress reduction for trauma-exposed individuals with and without an early intervention. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 82(2), 336-341. doi:10.1037/a0035537

This article provides the information concerning the importance of establishing strategies through which stress can be reduced from an individual after he or she involves in any form of experience that might cause trauma. The information provided by the article is thus important and provides information concerning the way people can protect themselves from attaining PTSD after they involve in a traumatic activity.

Senneseth, M., Alsaker, K., & Natvig, G. K. (2012). Health-related quality of life and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in accident and emergency attenders suffering from psychosocial crises: A longitudinal study: HRQoL and PTSD symptoms in A & E attenders. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 68(2), 402-413. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05752.x

The authors to this source provide information concerning the quality of life of the individuals and the means through which those individuals manage to improve. Aspects of psychological crises cause a large number of people to visit emergency units. The article provide information concerning the quality of life of these individuals with regard to health. This article is important because it helps individuals attain an understanding of the kind of life that individuals who have had PTSD face.

Broussard, B., McGriff, J. A., Demir Neubert, B. N., D’Orio, B., & Compton, M. T. (2010). Characteristics of patients referred to psychiatric emergency services by crisis intervention team police officers. Community Mental Health Journal, 46(6), 579-584. doi:10.1007/s10597-010-9295-3

This source provides information about crisis intervention training, which is important and appropriate for individuals that involve in operations involving offering help to people that need forms of emergency response assistance. This information is appropriate because people who have PTSD also requires similar response and intervention strategies to help their cases and manage to avoid significant and permanent effects of the condition.

Psychopathology

This topic involves research studies concerning diseases that cause stress to people, and the many diversified ways through which individuals attempt to deal with them. Many literal articles have been authored with an aim of explaining this issue. Some of these sources are as listed.

Pacella, M. L., Armelie, A., Boarts, J., Wagner, G., Jones, T., Feeny, N., & Delahanty, D. L. (2012;2011;). The impact of prolonged exposure on PTSD symptoms and associated psychopathology in people living with HIV: A randomized test of concept. AIDS and Behavior, 16(5), 1327-1340. doi:10.1007/s10461-011-0076-y

This article provides information concerning a method through which individuals utilize to treat PTSD and the impact that this treatment has on individuals who attain the disorder. This information is appropriate and involves the experimentation of how a certain individuals are impacted by the disorder and the method of treatment. The authors explain the method of treatment as prolonged Exposure. They utilize a large number of test subjects, who are individuals that have been confirmed to contain PTSD. The large number of the individuals help to ensure that the information obtained is accurate.

Wingenfeld, K., Driessen, M., Adam, B., & Hill, A. (2007). Overnight urinary cortisol release in women with borderline personality disorder depends on comorbid PTSD and depressive psychopathology. European Psychiatry, 22(5), 309-312. doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2006.09.002

This article provides information about the body organs that attain stress and other aspects that contribute towards an individual attaining the mental conditions like stress and depression. This information is important because through it, on can simply understand the science of attaining the PTSD condition. For people and other experts to formulate appropriate and effective treatment strategies, they need a clear understanding of the aspects and science involved in the attainment of these disorders. This article provides this information with high-level clarity.

Tahaney, K., Xi, P., Delgado, N., Grant, M., Kremen, W., Franz, C., & Lyons, M. (2013). The effect of trauma on risk of PTSD is modified by parental psychopathology. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 54(1), e11. doi:10.1016/j.comppsych.2012.07.049

This source begin by explaining to the readers that other significant aspects apart from the immediate incidence that triggers them cause the causes of PTSD among other forms of mental disorders. A certain situation may, for example, occur, an aspect that could cause majority of individuals to attain the PTSD, but when some people attain this condition, others do not. This is simply because of the significant difference that exists between the individuals. The authors then explain that parental psychopathology is among the factors that influence the risk of an individual attaining the PTSD disorder.

Engelhard, I. M., Arntz, A. R., & Hout, v. d., M.A. (2007). Low specificity of symptoms on the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom scale: A comparison of individuals with PTSD, individuals with other anxiety disorders and individuals without psychopathology. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 46(4), 449-456. doi:10.1348/014466507X206883

This source provides research of PTSD and other mental disorders that individuals attain and the similarity of their symptoms. The symptoms of a certain condition are the main determiners of the treatment that an individual takes for the condition. They determine clearly the condition that the individual can simply be the. This article then provides clarity to physicians on the specific symptoms that, with PTSD and the difference between those symptoms and the symptoms of others mental conditions.

Harpaz-Rotem, I., Tsai, J., Pietrzak, R. H., & Hoff, R. A. (2014). The dimensional structure of posttraumatic stress symptomatology in 323,903 U.S. veterans. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 49, 31-36. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2013.10.020

This article provides information concerning the recent understanding of the structure of posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology. The information that the article provides based on this information is significantly beneficial and could help individuals understand better the causes of PTSD and the means through which they can improve the treatment of other and with the condition. Such information would significantly benefit a large number of people, who have suffered and are victims to the providers of PTSD.

Elhai, J. D., Contractor, A. A., Palmieri, P. A., Forbes, D., & Richardson, J. D. (2011). Exploring the relationship between underlying dimensions of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in a national, trauma-exposed military sample. Journal of Affective Disorders, 133(3), 477-480. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2011.04.035

This article provides comparison information of experimental results with an aim of establishing the relationship that exists provides symptoms and effect on an individual’s life between the conditions of PTSD and depression. Most of the treatment procedures are formulated similarly for both conditions due to the similarity of the symptoms utilized to establish and provide medication.

References

Horesh, D., Solomon, Z., & Ein-Dor, T. (2013). DELAYED-ONSET PTSD AFTER COMBAT: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL RESOURCES: Delayed-onset PTSD after combat. Journal of Community Psychology, 41(5), 532-548. doi:10.1002/jcop.21555

Ullman, S. E., & Peter‐Hagene, L. (2014). social reactions to sexual assault disclosure, coping, perceived control, and ptsd symptoms in sexual assault victims. Journal of Community Psychology, 42(4), 495-508. doi:10.1002/jcop.21624

Vujanovic, A. A., Bonn-Miller, M. O., & Petry, N. M. (2016). Co-occurring posttraumatic stress and substance use: Emerging research on correlates, mechanisms, and treatments—Introduction to the special issue. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 30(7), 713-719. doi:10.1037/adb0000222

Cukor, J., Spitalnick, J., Difede, J., Rizzo, A., & Rothbaum, B. O. (2009). Emerging treatments for PTSD. Clinical Psychology Review, 29(8), 715-726. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2009.09.001

Coldiron, M. E., Llosa, A. E., Roederer, T., Casas, G., & Moro, M. (2013). Brief mental health interventions in conflict and emergency settings: An overview of four médecins sans frontières - france programs. Conflict and Health, 7(1), 23-23. doi:10.1186/1752-1505-7-23