Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

The first systematic analysis of the rates, risk factors, consequences and global burden of trauma and PTSD across the globe.

Part I. Introduction: 1. The global epidemiology of trauma exposure and PTSD Evelyn J. Bromet, Elie G. Karam, Karestan C. Koenen and Dan J. Stein; 2. Methods of the world mental health surveys Ronald C. Kessler, Steven G. Heeringa, Beth-Ellen Pennell and Alan M. Zaslavsky; Part II. Epidemiology of Trauma Exposure: 3. Cross-national prevalence, distributions and clusters of trauma exposure Corina Benjet, Jean-Pierre Lépine, Marina Piazza, Victoria Shahly, Arieh Shalev and Dan J. Stein; 4. Childhood adversities and preexisting psychopathology as predictors of trauma Victoria Shahly, Corina Benjet, Graça Cardoso, Louisa Degenhardt and Elie G. Karam; Part III. Epidemiology of PTSD: 5. Population prevalence of PTSD Karestan C. Koenen, Andrew Ratanatharathorn, Evelyn J. Bromet, Elie G. Karam and Dan J. Stein; 6. The associations of PTSD with secondary mental and physical health disorders Ronald C. Kessler, Peter de Jonge, Yueqin Huang, John J. McGrath, Elie G. Karam and Kate Scott; 7. The impairments associated with PTSD Ronald C. Kessler, Somnath Chatterji, Yanling He, Daphna Levinson, Elie G. Karam and Jordi Alonso; 8. Patterns of treatment and barriers to care in PTSD Graham Thornicroft, Sara Evans-Lacko, Karestan C. Koenen, Viviane Kovess-Masféty, David R. Williams and Ronald C. Kessler; Part IV. Factors Influencing the Onset and Course of PTSD: 9. The effects of trauma type, timing, accumulation and sequencing Howard Liu, Laura Helena Andrade, Josep Maria Haro, Dan J. Stein and Ronald C. Kessler; 10. The effects of childhood adversities Katie A. McLaughlin, Oye Gureje, Norito Kawakami, Karestan C. Koenen and Ronald C. Kessler; 11. The effects of prior psychopathology Ronald C. Kessler, Evelyn J. Bromet, Beth-Ellen Pennell and Elie G. Karam; 12. Sexual assault among women Kate Scott, Evelyn J. Bromet, Ronny Bruffaerts, Karestan C. Koenen, Yolanda Torres and Ronald C. Kessler; 13. Motor vehicle collisions Dan J. Stein, Hristo Hinkov, Maria Elena Medina-Mora and Ronald C. Kessler; 14. The unexpected death of a loved one Lukoye Atwoli, Dan J. Stein, Margreet ten Have and Ronald C. Kessler; 15. Natural and human-made disasters Evelyn J. Bromet, Silvia Florescu, Giovanni de Girolamo, Fernando Navarro-Mateu and Elie G. Karam; 16. Patterns and predictors of the course of PTSD Anthony J. Rosellini, John Fayyad, Karestan C. Koenen and Ronald C. Kessler; Part V. Dissecting the Clinical Picture: 17. DSM-5 and ICD-11 definitions of PTSD: inverstigating 'narrow' and 'broad approaches Dan J. Stein, Matthew J. Friedman, Katie A. McLaughlin, Kate M. Scott and Ronald C. Kessler; 18. The role of Criterion A2 in the DSM-IV Diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder Elie G. Karam, Evelyn J. Bromet, Ayelet Meron Ruscio, Dan. J. Stein and Ronald C. Kessler; 19. Threshold versus subthreshold PTSD Katie A. McLaughlin, Koen Demyttenaere, Karestan C. Koenen, José Posada-Villa, Ayelet Meron Ruscio and Ronald C. Kessler; 20. Dissociative versus non-dissociative PTSD Dan J. Stein, Brendan Bunting, José Miguel Caldas de Almeida, Ayelet Meron Ruscio, David Spiegel and Ronald C. Kessler; 21. Simple versus complex PTSD Elie G. Karam, Evelyn J. Bromet, Ronald C. Kessler, Maria Carmen Viana and Karestan C. Koenen; Part VI. Conclusions and Future Directions: 22. Data mining to predict PTSD onset in the wake of trauma exposure Ronald C. Kessler, Sherri Rose, Paul Stang and Alan M. Zaslavsky; 23. The population burden of PTSD Ronald C. Kessler, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Jordi Alonso, Sing Lee and Karestan C. Koenen; 24. Conclusions and future directions Evelyn J. Bromet, Elie G. Karam, Karestan C. Koenen and Dan J. Stein.