1. Facts For Health--posttraumatic Stress Disorder Diagnosing and treating posttraumatic stress disorder information and resources for patients and clinicians. http://ptsd.factsforhealth.org

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 many individuals may suffer posttraumatic stress disorder. Read about how this site can help you, your family and friends The intensity of experiencing a life-threatening trauma can take time to subside. For some, it simply never does. If vivid "flashback" experiences or nightmares haunt you, if you're feeling emotionally numb or you feel plagued by worry and are losing sleep over concern for your safety, it is possible that you may be suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. Seeking treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can help restore balance, control, and enjoyment to your life.

2. EMedicine Health - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), What Is PTSD? Overview of posttraumatic stress disorder and its causes, symptoms, and treatment. http://www.emedicinehealth.com/articles/29064-1.asp

Search September 25, 2005 Registration Healthcare Professionals You are in: Mental Health and Behavior Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) What Is PTSD? Post-traumatic stress disorder, also known as PTSD, is among only a few mental disorders that are triggered by a disturbing outside event, quite unlike other psychiatric disorders such as depression Many Americans experience individual traumatic events ranging from car and airplane accidents to sexual assault and domestic violence. Other experiences, including those associated with natural disasters, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes, affect multiple people simultaneously. Dramatic and tragic events, like the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and wars occur, and with media exposure such as we have today, even people not directly involved might be affected. Simply put, PTSD is a state in which you "can't stop remembering." Although the disorder must be diagnosed by a mental health professional, symptoms of PTSD are clearly defined. To be diagnosed with PTSD, you must have been in a situation in which you were afraid for your safety or your life, or you must have experienced something that made you feel fear, helplessness, or horror. The worse the trauma, the more likely a person will develop PTSD, and the worse the symptoms. The most severely affected are unable to work, have trouble with relationships, and have great difficulty parenting their children.

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4. Anxiety Disorders In Children - Keep Kids Healthy Conditions Anxiety Disorders in children and adolescents including generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessivecompulsive disorder, phobias and posttraumatic stress disorder. http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/welcome/conditions/anxiety_disorders.html

Bookstore Site Map Contact Us Help ... What's New? Search this site: Advanced Search Main Menu Useful Tools Index of Topics Pediatric Problems Parenting Tips ... Web Links Online Resources What's New Reviews Growth Charts Online Forums ... Pediatric News Newsletters: Subscribe to get free news, tips and updates. Recommend Us tell a friend about us or email this page to a friend anxiety in children Main Diseases and Conditions Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders by William T. Goldman, MD Anxiety symptoms and disorders are the number one health problem in America, ranging from a simple Adjustment Disorder to more difficult and debilitating disorders such as Panic Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. According to the most recent data, the lifetime prevalence for anxiety disorders as a whole in adults is about 25%; the frequency in children is unknown, but felt to be significantly underreported and under-diagnosed. More specifically Social Anxiety Disorder has a lifetime risk of 17%, while Panic Disorder occurs in approximately 1-3% of the adult population. Related Articles Attention Deficit Disorder Depression Internet Links About Pediatrics ADHD Mental Health Information for Children Symptoms of Anxiety Disorders Anxiety is a subjective sense of worry, apprehension, fear and distress. Often it is normal to have these sensations on occasion, and so it is important to distinguish between normal levels of anxiety and unhealthy or pathologic levels of anxiety. The subjective experience of anxiety typically has two components: physical sensations (e.g., headache, nausea, sweating) and the emotions of nervousness and fear. Anxiety disorders, when severe, can affect a child's thinking, decision-making ability, perceptions of the environment, learning and concentration. It raises blood pressure and heart rate, and can cause a multitude of bodily complaints, such as nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, ulcers, diarrhea, tingling, weakness, and shortness of breath, among other things.

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder American Description Diagnostic Criteria The person has been exposed to a traumatic event in which both of the following were present: the person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others the person's response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror. Note: In children, this may be expressed instead by disorganized or agitated behavior The traumatic event is persistently reexperienced in one (or more) of the following ways: recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the event, including images, thoughts, or perceptions. Note: In young children, repetitive play may occur in which themes or aspects of the trauma are expressed. recurrent distressing dreams of the event. Note: In children, there may be frightening dreams without recognizable content. acting or feeling as if the traumatic event were recurring (includes a sense of reliving the experience, illusions, hallucinations, and dissociative flashback episodes, including those that occur on awakening or when intoxicated). Note: In young children, trauma-specific reenactment may occur.

7. CNN - Can Virtual Reality Be Used To Combat Post-traumatic Stress Disorder? - Oc CNN http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9910/17/vietnam.virtual/index.html

MAIN PAGE WORLD U.S. LOCAL ... daily almanac MULTIMEDIA: video video archive audio multimedia showcase ... more services E-MAIL: Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists. Enter your address: document.write(' '); Or: Get a free e-mail account E-MAIL DISCUSSION: message boards chat feedback CNN WEB SITES: AsiaNow Svenska Norge Danmark ... Italian FASTER ACCESS: europe japan TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW CNN NETWORKS: more networks transcripts SITE INFO: help contents search ad info ... jobs WEB SERVICES: health > story page Can virtual reality be used to combat post-traumatic stress disorder? A virtual helicopter meant to evoke real memories of Vietnam Atlanta VA researchers say yes October 17, 1999 Web posted at: 6:46 p.m. EDT (2246 GMT) From CNN Corespondent Dan Rutz ATLANTA (CNN) Long after a generation of U.S. soldiers returned from a controversial war, researchers are using virtual reality to help Vietnam veterans overcome lingering psychological trauma. The malady haunting thousands of vets almost three decades after the end of the drawn-out conflict, is known as post-traumatic stress disorder. While the images of the war have faded from the memories of many U.S. citizens, they continue to cause problems for some of those who experienced them first hand. Some suffer to the point of dysfunction.

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9. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been called shell shock or battle fatiguesyndrome. It has often been misunderstood or misdiagnosed, http://www.psych.org/public_info/ptsd.cfm

10. CNN - Shadows From The Past: Understanding Post-traumatic Stress Disorder - Nove CNN http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9911/01/ptsd.wmd/index.html

MAIN PAGE WORLD U.S. LOCAL ... daily almanac MULTIMEDIA: video video archive audio multimedia showcase ... more services E-MAIL: Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists. Enter your address: document.write(' '); Or: Get a free e-mail account E-MAIL DISCUSSION: message boards chat feedback CNN WEB SITES: AsiaNow Svenska Norge Danmark ... Italian FASTER ACCESS: europe japan TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW CNN NETWORKS: more networks transcripts SITE INFO: help contents search ad info ... jobs WEB SERVICES: health > story page Shadows from the past: Understanding post-traumatic stress disorder November 1, 1999 Web posted at: 12:07 PM EST (1707 GMT) In this story: Who gets PTSD? PTSD treatment RELATEDS By Ronald Pies, M.D. (WebMD) The woman was desperate, afraid. She heard voices in her head and feared she was going crazy. "The world means to do me harm," she told her psychiatrist. "Someone might want to kill me." But the woman hearing these voices wasn't crazy. As she soon revealed in the course of her therapy, the voice she heard was that of a family member who had abused her. Rather than losing her mind, the woman was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a condition that afflicts 8 percent of Americans, according to a survey reported in the December 1995 Archives of General Psychiatry. Doctors have known about PTSD since at least the Civil War, and have developed many treatments in recent years. While some have proven successful, others including a popular new therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Re-processing (EMDR) are controversial.

11. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)once called shell shock-affects hundreds of thousands of people who have survived earthquakes, airplane http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

12. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - AACAP Facts For Families # 70 All children and adolescents experience stressful events which can affect themboth emotionally and physically. Their reactions to stress are usually brief, http://www.aacap.org/publications/factsfam/ptsd70.htm

P OSTTRAUMATIC S TRESS D ISORDER (PTSD) No. 70 All children and adolescents experience stressful events which can affect them both emotionally and physically. Their reactions to stress are usually brief, and they recover without further problems. A child or adolescent who experiences a catastrophic event may develop ongoing difficulties known as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The stressful or traumatic event involves a situation where someone’s life has been threatened or severe injury has occurred (ex. they may be the victim or a witness of physical abuse, sexual abuse, violence in the home or in the community, automobile accidents, natural disasters (such as flood, fire, earthquakes), and being diagnosed with a life threatening illness). A child’s risk of developing PTSD is related to the seriousness of the trauma, whether the trauma is repeated, the child’s proximity to the trauma, and his/her relationship to the victim(s). Following the trauma, children may initially show agitated or confused behavior. They also may show intense fear, helplessness, anger, sadness, horror or denial. Children who experience repeated trauma may develop a kind of emotional numbing to deaden or block the pain and trauma. This is called dissociation. Children with PTSD avoid situations or places that remind them of the trauma. They may also become less responsive emotionally, depressed, withdrawn, and more detached from their feelings. A child with PTSD may also re-experience the traumatic event by:

13. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Symptoms, Diagnosis And Visit The Mental Health Center Understand posttraumatic stress disorder learn the essentials by browsing these topics. Free Newsletters http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

14. AACAP - Clinical Practice - POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER in the area of childhood posttraumatic stress disorder are also discussed.Key Words posttraumatic stress disorder, trauma, traumafocused therapy, http://www.aacap.org/clinical/Ptsdsum.htm

SUMMARY OF THE PRACTICE PARAMETERS FOR THE ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER ABSTRACT This summary provides an overview of the assessment and treatment recommendations contained in the Practice Parameters for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Major recommendations include the use of clinical interviewing with specific questioning about posttraumatic stress symptoms to diagnose this disorder; recognition of developmental considerations that may impact on how posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms manifest in children; and the use of trauma-focused treatment interventions. Limitations and controversies regarding the present state of knowledge in the area of childhood posttraumatic stress disorder are also discussed. Key Words: posttraumatic stress disorder, trauma, trauma-focused therapy, children, adolescents, evaluation, treatment, practice parameters, guidelines. ASSESSMENT DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS TREATMENT PSYCHOTHERAPY PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY REFERENCE American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1998), Practice parameters for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with posttraumatic stress disorder. J Amer Acad Child Adol Psychiatry 37(10suppl)

15. Facts For Healthposttraumatic Stress Disorder Diagnosing and treating posttraumatic stress disorder information and resources for patients and clinicians. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

16. PTSD The posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Alliance is a group of PosttraumaticStress Disorder is a complex health condition that can develop in response http://www.ptsdalliance.org/home2.html

How can we help you? Have you been diagnosed or do you think you have PTSD? Does a family member or friend have PTSD? Do you work with PTSD patients or those at risk? Are you a member of the media? Who we are. The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Alliance is a group of professional and advocacy organizations that have joined forces to provide educational resources to individuals diagnosed with PTSD and their loved ones; those at risk for developing PTSD; and medical, healthcare and other frontline professionals. What is PTSD? about PTSD Alliance Members Alliance Members This site contains general health information offered as a public service for educational purposes and should not be considered a substitute for medical advice, counseling or treatment. If you suspect that you or someone you care about has PTSD, it is important to talk with a qualified mental healthcare, medical or other healthcare professional for additional guidance or consultation regarding the proper diagnosis and treatment of PTSD. Click here

17. NIMH - DIRP Mood & Anxiety Disorders Programs Homepage Treatment trials for outpatients and inpatients for depression, bipolar, panic, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD for children and adults. http://intramural.nimh.nih.gov/mood/

MOOD AND ANXIETY DISORDERS PROGRAM Mission Statement Program Director Clinical Research Opportunities Program Investigators ... What's New? The staff of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program (MAP) would like to extend a warm welcome to you. We are excited about our clinical research program and look forward to interfacing with the public, mental health professionals, and fellow researchers from around the world. Our mission is to combine vigorous scientific standards with a multi-perspective approach so that we can move forward in the search for the underlying causes of mood and anxiety disorders and develop new treatments. Our website will inform you about our current research projects and provide information about our mission and our staff. We hope you find our website informative and helpful. If while browsing you find any problems, please contact our webmaster at christik@intra.nimh.nih.gov. For further information call toll free: 1-866-MAPNIMH ADDITIONAL NIMH INFORMATION Accessibility NIMH Home Site Map Using This Site ... Contact Us For information about NIMH and its programs, please

18. Topics Posttraumatic Stress Disorder APA topics of interest to the public posttraumatic stress disorder http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

19. David Baldwin's Trauma Information Pages Resource for Emergency Nurses regarding other types of trauma. This site focuses on emotional trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

20. Welcome To ISTSS - The International Society For Traumatic Stress UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) the treatment of PTSD in adults and children (PDF) http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

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