Culture and PTSD : trauma in global and historical perspective / edited by Devon E. Hinton and Byron J. Good.

Culture and post traumatic stress disorder

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

vi, 428 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

The culturally sensitive assessment of trauma : eleven analytic perspectives, a typology of errors, and the multiplex models of distress generation / Devon E. Hinton and Byron J. Good -- Is PTSD a transhistoric phenomenon? / Richard J. Mcnally -- What is "PTSD"? The heterogeneity thesis / Allan Young and Naomi Breslau -- From shell shock to PTSD and traumatic brain injury : a historical perspective on responses to combat trauma / James K. Boehnlein and Devon E. Hinton -- Trauma in the lifeworlds of adolescents : hard luck and trouble in the land of enchantment / Janis H. Jenkins and Bridget M. Haas -- Gendered trauma and its effects : domestic violence and PTSD in Oaxaca / Whitney L. Duncan -- Exploring pathways of distress and mental disorders : the case of the highland Quechua populations in the Peruvian Andes / Duncan Pedersen and Hanna Kienzler -- Latinas' and Latinos' risk for PTSD after trauma exposure : a review of sociocultural explanations / Carmela Alcántara and Roberto Lewis-Fernández -- Karma to chromosomes : studying the biology of PTSD in a world of culture / Brandon A. Kohrt, Carol M. Worthman, and Nawaraj Upadhaya -- Square pegs and round holes : understanding historical trauma in two Native American communities / Tom Ball and Theresa D. O'Nell -- Culture, trauma, and the social life of PTSD in Haiti / Erica Caple James -- Is PTSD a "good enough" concept for postconflict mental health care? Reflections on work in Aceh, Indonesia / Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, and Jesse H. Grayman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.