FROM THE GUEST EDITOR 

Anand Pandya

From the Guest Editor

Focus 2009 7: 153 [Full Text] [PDF]

CLINICAL SYNTHESIS 

Anand Pandya

Adult Disaster Psychiatry

Focus 2009 7: 155-159 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [CME: PTSD & Disaster Psychiatry]

David M. Benedek and Robert J. Ursano

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: From Phenomenology to Clinical Practice

Focus 2009 7: 160-175 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [CME: PTSD & Disaster Psychiatry]

R. Bruce Lydiard and Mark H. Hamner

Clinical Importance of Sleep Disturbance as a Treatment Target in PTSD

Focus 2009 7: 176-183 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [CME: PTSD & Disaster Psychiatry]

Simone Vigod and Donna Stewart

Ask the Expert: Acute Management of Sexual Assault

Focus 2009 7: 184-185 [Full Text] [PDF]

Farifteh F. Duffy, Thomas Craig, Eve K. Moscicki, Joyce C. West, and Laura J. Fochtmann

Performance in Practice: Clinical Tools to Improve the Care of Patients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Focus 2009 7: 186-203 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

INFLUENTIAL PUBLICATIONS 

David M. Benedek, Matthew J. Friedman, Douglas Zatzick, and Robert J. Ursano

Guideline Watch (March 2009): Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Focus 2009 7: 204-213 [Full Text] [PDF]

Bibliography for PTSD and Disaster Psychiatry

Focus 2009 7: 214-216 [Full Text] [PDF]

Abstracts: PTSD and Disaster Psychiatry

Focus 2009 7: 217-220 [Full Text] [PDF]

Stevan E. Hobfoll, Patricia Watson, Carl C. Bell, Richard A. Bryant, Melissa J. Brymer, Matthew J. Friedman, Merle Friedman, Berthold P.R. Gersons, Joop T.V.M de Jong, Christopher M. Layne, Shira Maguen, Yuval Neria, Ann E. Norwood, Robert S. Pynoos, Dori Reissman, Josef I. Ruzek, Arieh Y. Shalev, Zahava Solomon, Alan M. Steinberg, and Robert J. Ursano

Five Essential Elements of Immediate and Mid-Term Mass Trauma Intervention: Empirical Evidence

Focus 2009 7: 221-242 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Philip S. Wang, Michael J. Gruber, Richard E. Powers, Michael Schoenbaum, Anthony H. Speier, Kenneth B. Wells, and Ronald C. Kessler

Mental Health Service Use Among Hurricane Katrina Survivors in the Eight Months After the Disaster

Focus 2009 7: 243-253 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Charles B. Nemeroff, J. Douglas Bremner, Edna B. Foa, Helen S. Mayberg, Carol S. North, and Murray B. Stein

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A State-of-the-Science Review

Focus 2009 7: 254-273 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Joseph E. LeDoux

Emotion Circuits in the Brain

Focus 2009 7: 274 [Abstract] [PDF]

Edna B. Foa, Constance V. Dancu, Elizabeth A. Hembree, Lisa H. Jaycox, Elizabeth A. Meadows, and Gordon P. Street

A Comparison of Exposure Therapy, Stress Inoculation Training, and Their Combination for Reducing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Female Assault Victims

Focus 2009 7: 290 [Abstract] [PDF]