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Posttraumatic stress disorder in older adults
— an overview of characteristics and treatment approaches | | Author(s) | Maria Bottche, Philipp Kuwert, Christine Knaevelsrud |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 27, no 3, March 2012 |
| Pages | pp 230-239 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/gps |
| Keywords | Stress ; Neuroses ; War ; Older people ; Life span ; Therapeutics ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | Research on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in older adults can be assigned to categories based on the period of life in which the trauma occurred. The first category covers older adults who were traumatised decades ago, such as veterans of World War II. The second category covers older adults traumatised more recently, such as victims of violence. The aim of this article is to review the available data on how the timing of the trauma impacts the prevalence and symptoms of late-life PTSD and to review current treatment approaches. It demonstrates that the course and severity of PTSD symptoms in older adults depends on the time the trauma occurred. In the case of acute traumatisation, lower prevalence rates and symptom severities are generally observed in older rather than younger populations. In the case of early-life traumatisation, a decline in PTSD symptom severity can be observed over the life course. Research on treatment approaches has produced promising results, indicating that disorder-specific interventions, such as trauma confrontation and cognitive restructuring, can be effectively combined with an age-specific narrative life-review approach. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120914004 A |
| Classmark | QNH: EN: VMC: B: BG6: LL: 4C |
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