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Most people will experience a traumatic event at some time in their lives. The front page of any newspaper attests to the fact that extremely stressful experiences are quite common. Conflicts like those in Kosovo, Bosnia, Rwanda, Afghanistan, and the Sudan, terrorist attacks like those on the US World Trade Center and Pentagon, the Tokyo sarin gas and US anthrax releases, the chemical and nuclear disasters in Bhopal and Chernobyl—all demonstrate the ability of human-caused catastrophes to devastate and disrupt the lives of vast numbers of people.
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Saxena, S., Solomon, S.D. (2004). Introduction. In: Green, B.L., et al. Trauma Interventions in War and Peace. International and Cultural Psychology Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-47968-7_1
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