...(DSM-IV), published in 1994, PTSD is defined as the development of characteristic symptoms following an extreme traumatic stressor involving direct personal...event that involves actual or threatened death or injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self, a family member, or another close associate...

...constitutes a sufficiently traumatic experience. The essential feature of posttraumatic stress disorder is the development of characteristic symptoms following...direct personal experience of an event that involves threatened death, actual or threatened serious injury, or other threat to one's physical integrity;...

...psychologically distressing event or a catastrophe. The essential feature of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is the development of characteristic symptoms following exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor or event. Such events involve death, serious injury, or other threat to a threat to a person's physical...

...me good ideas about abuse. The DSM-IV (1994) describes the Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as the development of characteristic symptoms following...threat to the physical integrity of another person ... (p. 424) Examples include domestic battering, being taken hostage, and the experience of being...

...me good ideas about abuse. The DSM-IV (1994) describes the Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as the development of characteristic symptoms following...serious injury, or other threat to one's physical mtegrity; or witnessing an event that involves death, injury, or a threat to the physical integrity...

...of pain, gastrointestinal, sexual, and pseudoneurological symptoms. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder- the development of characteristic symptoms following...involves actual or threatened death or serious injury, or threat to one's physical integrity, or witnessing an event that involves death, injury, or a threat...

...anxiety disorders and classifies it as either acute or chronic or delayed: The essential feature is the development of characteristic symptoms following...involves actual or threatened death or serious injury , , , The following associated constellation of symptoms may occur and are more commonly seen in association...

...pain, gastrointestinal, sexual, and pseudoneurological symptoms. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder-the development of characteristic symptoms following exposure...involves actual or threatened death or serious injury, or threat to one's physical integrity, or witnessing an event that involves death, injury, or a threat...

...trauma. Central to the DSM-IV criteria defining a stressor capable of causing trauma is that the event involves "actual or threatened death or serious injury,...witnessing an event that involves death, injury, or the threat to the physical integrity of another person." Accordingly, the stressor capable of producing...

...with diverse population groups. PHENOMENOLOGY By definition, the symptoms of the disorder arise after exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor, involving...involves actual or threatened death or serious injury or threat to physical integrity; or witnessing an event that involves death, injury, or threat to the...