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Traumatic Stress

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In the last 25 years, the scientific study of the psychological aftermath of war has flourished. A burgeoning clinical and empirical literature has provided incontrovertible evidence that war exacts a heavy toll in terms of human suffering, not only for combatants but also for military support personnel and affected civilians. Clinical investigators have delineated the symptoms that characterize war-related stress reactions and have devised etiological models that explain the onset and course of these symptoms. In addition, they have developed increasingly sophisticated assessment instruments and clinical interventions to evaluate and treat combat veterans.

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Weathers, F.W., Litz, B.T., Keane, T.M. (1995). Military Trauma. In: Freedy, J.R., Hobfoll, S.E. (eds) Traumatic Stress. Springer Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1076-9_5

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