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Prospective Studies of the Recently Traumatized

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International Handbook of Human Response to Trauma

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Abstract

Reactions to traumatic events, their course, and their presumed etiology have been studied throughout this century (e.g., Rivers, 1918; Fraser & Wilson, 1918; Grinker et al., 1946), although it is only since these were included in an official nosology that their natural course has been studied systematically. Seventeen years following the inclusion of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the psychiatric literature, it seems worthwhile to assess what has been learned from more systematic research and which questions still remain to be answered. This chapter reviews longitudinal studies to date, outlines some of the gaps that remain in our knowledge, and suggests a possible way forward for future research.

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  1. Center for Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel

    Sara Freedman & Arieh Y. Shalev

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    Arieh Y. Shalev

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  3. Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia

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Freedman, S., Shalev, A.Y. (2000). Prospective Studies of the Recently Traumatized. 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_18

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