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Post Traumatic Stress Disorde... : Causes

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Causes Overview Articles

Post-traumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD) may occur soon after a major trauma, or it can be delayed for more than 6 months after the event. When it occurs soon after the trauma, it usually gets better after 3 months.
Source:ADAM
Date:January 20, 2009
Post-traumatic stress disorder
When PTSD was first suggested as a diagnostic category for DSM-III in 1980, it was controversial precisely because of the central role of outside stressors as causes of the disorder. Psychiatry has generally emphasized the internal weaknesses or d...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a response to a profoundly disturbing event. It isn't clear why some people develop PTSD following a trauma and others do not, although experts suspect it may be influenced both by the severity of the event, by the person's personality an...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
It is when these responses continue or become debilitating that PTSD is often diagnosed. The third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM-III) outlined three forms of the disorder:.Acute: onset within six months o...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
While it is not clear why some people develop PTSD following a trauma and others do not, experts suspect that it may be influenced both by the severity of the event, by the person's personality and genetic make-up, and by whether or not the trauma...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health

Specific Causes Articles

Traumatic events
A traumatic event is an experience that causes physical, emotional, psychological distress, or harm. It is an event that is perceived and experienced as a threat to one''s safety or to the stability of one''s world.At the time of a traumatic event, ...
Source:ADAM
Date:May 8, 2008
First aid for emotional trauma
An investigation into the methods used for psychological treatment of post traumatic stress disorder.
Source:StayWell
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