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Guideline Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. 2004
Ursano RJ, Bell C, Eth S, Friedman M, Norwood A, Pfefferbaum B, Pynoos JD, Zatzick DF, Benedek DM, McIntyre JS, Charles SC, Altshuler K, Cook I, Cross CD, Mellman L, Moench LA, Norquist G, Twemlow SW, Woods S, Yager J, Anonymous00293, Anonymous00294. · No affiliation provided · Am J Psychiatry. · Pubmed #15617511 No free full text.
This publication has no abstract.
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Review Psychological trauma, physical health and somatisation. 2000
Ng V, Norwood A. · Department of Psychiatry, F. Edward Hebért School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. · Ann Acad Med Singapore. · Pubmed #11126705 No free full text.
Abstract: The aim of this review is to examine the relationship between trauma, physical health and somatisation. A search was made on the Procite Database at the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences for research articles with the following key words: posttraumatic stress disorder, somatisation, trauma (the Procite Database holds more than 15,000 articles related to trauma and disaster). A review of the current research findings show a link between prior exposure to traumatic events (such as war, disaster, motor vehicles and industrial accidents, crime and sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse) and subsequent physical heath and medical care utilisation. Possible mechanisms and conceptualisations which may explain the association between trauma and physical health, such as high-risk health behaviours, neurobiology, alexithymia and culture are discussed. Because traumatised persons show high medical utilisation, good screening, thorough assessment, empirically-based treatment and appropriate referral of such patients are essential.
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