Main description:

Recent advances in trauma treatment, coupled with ongoing traumatic world events, point to a critical need for global standards in assessment. But despite the best intentions of Western psychology, one model does not fit all cultures. Cross-Cultural Assessment of Psychological Trauma and PTSD addresses key issues in the field to help fill this knowledge gap.

Focusing equally on theoretical concepts, culturally valid assessment methods, and cultural adaptation in trauma and resilience, 29 experts present the cutting edge of research and strategies. Extended case examples (including West Africans in Austria, Hmong in the U.S., and Aboriginal people in Australia) illustrate an informative range of symptom profiles, comorbid conditions, and coping skills, as well as secondary traumas that can occur in asylum seekers. Professional concerns are also highlighted, from training and competency issues to the challenges of translating assessment into treatment. The results are a vital set of insights and guidelines that will contribute to more aware and meaningful practice.

Included in the coverage:

• Twenty-one questions central to understanding trauma in cultural context.








• In-depth studies on the effects of trauma over multiple generations, and developmental issues among traumatized youth.








• A review of traditional interventions and current trauma assessment practice from China.








• Reports on the combined use of psycho- and pharmacotherapy in treating refugees.








• Cross-cultural perspectives on the Impact of Events Scale—Revised and other widely used assessment methods.








• Renewed debates over the nature of PTSD as a reaction to mass trauma.

With the world in its current state, Cross-Cultural Assessment of Psychological Trauma and PTSD is necessary reading for practitioners and academics in mental health. It is also highly relevant to those in a range of ethnomedicine, social work, and international aid and advocacy.

Feature:

Approaches the issue of PTSD from a global viewpoint

Emphasizes the needs for global standardization of methods, procedures, and techniques of the scientific assessment of PTSD and psychological injuries

Back cover:

Recent advances in trauma treatment, coupled with ongoing traumatic world events, point to a critical need for global standards in assessment. But despite the best intentions of Western psychology, one model does not fit all cultures. Cross-Cultural Assessment of Psychological Trauma and PTSD addresses key issues in the field to help fill this knowledge gap.

Focusing equally on theoretical concepts, culturally valid assessment methods, and cultural adaptation in trauma and resilience, 29 experts present the cutting edge of research and strategies. Extended case examples (including West Africans in Austria, Hmong in the U.S., and Aboriginal people in Australia) illustrate an informative range of symptom profiles, comorbid conditions, and coping skills, as well as secondary traumas that can occur in asylum seekers. Professional concerns are also highlighted, from training and competency issues to the challenges of translating assessment into treatment. The results are a vital set of insights and guidelines that will contribute to more aware and meaningful practice.

Included in the coverage:

• Twenty-one questions central to understanding trauma in cultural context.








• In-depth studies on the effects of trauma over multiple generations, and developmental issues among traumatized youth.








• A review of traditional interventions and current trauma assessment practice from China.








• Reports on the combined use of psycho- and pharmacotherapy in treating refugees.








• Cross-cultural perspectives on the Impact of Events Scale—Revised and other widely used assessment methods.








• Renewed debates over the nature of PTSD as a reaction to mass trauma.

With the world in its current state, Cross-Cultural Assessment of Psychological Trauma and PTSD is necessary reading for practitioners and academics in mental health. It is also highly relevant to those in a range of ethnomedicine, social work, and international aid and advocacy.

Contents:

PART I: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE CROSS-CULTURAL ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA Chapter 1: The Lens of Culture: Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives in the Assessment of Psychological Trauma and PTSD
John P. Wilson Chapter 2: Cultural-Ecological Perspectives on the Understanding and Assessment of Trauma
Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand Chapter 3: Ethnomedical Best Practices for International Psychosocial Efforts in Disaster and Trauma
|Siddharth Ashvin Shah Chapter 4: Assessing Trauma Across Cultures from a Multigenerational Perspective
Yael Danieli Chapter 5: Refugee Assessment Practices and Cultural Competency Training
Richard Dana Chapter 6: Wrestling with Ghosts from the Past in Exile: Assessing Trauma in Asylum Seekers
Boris Drozdek & John P. Wilson PART II: ASSESSMENT METHODS Chapter 7: Assessment of PTSD and Psychiatric Morbidity in Contemporary Chinese Societies
Catherine So-kum Tang Chapter 8: Culture and the Assessment of Trauma in Youth
Kathleen Nader Chapter 9: The Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnaire : An International Perspective
Charles R. Marmar, Thomas J. Metzler, Christian Otte, Shannon McCaslin, Sabra Inslicht, Clare Henn Haase Chapter 10: Cross Cultural Use of the Impact of Events Scale – Revised (IES-R)
Daniel Weiss Chapter 11: Posttraumatic Stress in Asylum Seekers from Chechnya, Afghanistan and West Africa – Differential Findings Obtained by Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Three Austrian Samples
Walter Renner, Ingrid Salem & Klaus Ottomeyer PART III: TRAUMA AND CULTURAL ADAPTATION Chapter 12: The Cross-Cultural Assessment ofDissociation
Robert Lewis-Fernandez, Alfonso Martinez-Taboas, Vedat Sar, Sapana Patel, & Adeline Boatin Chapter 13: Mass Psychological Trauma and PTSD: Epidemic or Cultural Illusion?
Derrick Silove, Zachary Steele, & Adrian Bauman Chapter 14: Assessment of Trauma for Aboriginal People
Beverly Raphael, Pat Delaney, & Daniel Bonner Chapter 15: Combined Psychosocial & Pharmacological Treatment of Traumatized Refugees
J. David Kinzie Chapter 16: Western Psychiatry and Difficulty Understanding and Treating Hmong Refugees
Joe Westermeyer and S. Cheng Her