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Despite the burgeoning literature on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder, there are few empirical findings to guide clinicians and researchers in anticipating how individuals with PTSD will fare over a time span of years. This chapter first briefly overviews current findings about the course of PTSD and then identifies reasons why longitudinal investigations of PTSD have been largely bypassed by PTSD researchers.
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Niles, B.L., Newman, E., Fisher, L.M. (2000). Obstacles to Assessment of PTSD in Longitudinal Research. In: Shalev, A.Y., Yehuda, R., McFarlane, A.C. (eds) International Handbook of Human Response to Trauma. Springer Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4177-6_15
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