InhaltsangabePART I: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE CROSS-CULTURAL ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA Chapter 1: The Lens of Culture: Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives in the Assessment of Psychological Trauma and PTSD

John P. Wilson Chapter 2: Cultural-Ecological Perspectives on the Understanding and Assessment of Trauma

Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand Chapter 3: Ethnomedical Best Practices for International Psychosocial Efforts in Disaster and Trauma

Siddharth Ashvin Shah Chapter 4: Assessing Trauma Across Cultures from a Multigenerational Perspective

Yael Danieli Chapter 5: Refugee Assessment Practices and Cultural Competency Training

Richard Dana Chapter 6: Wrestling with Ghosts from the Past in Exile: Assessing Trauma in Asylum Seekers

Boris Drozdek & John P. Wilson PART II: ASSESSMENT METHODS Chapter 7: Assessment of PTSD and Psychiatric Morbidity in Contemporary Chinese Societies

Catherine Sokum Tang Chapter 8: Culture and the Assessment of Trauma in Youth

Kathleen Nader Chapter 9: The Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnaire: An International Perspective

Charles R. Marmar, Thomas J. Metzler, Christian Otte, Shannon McCaslin, Sabra Inslicht, Clare Henn Haase Chapter 10: Cross Cultural Use of the Impact of Events Scale - Revised (IES-R)

Daniel Weiss Chapter 11: Posttraumatic Stress in Asylum Seekers from Chechnya, Afghanistan and West Africa - Differential Findings Obtained by Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Three Austrian Samples

Walter Renner, Ingrid Salem & Klaus Ottomeyer PART III: TRAUMA AND CULTURAL ADAPTATION Chapter 12: The Cross-Cultural Assessment ofDissociation

Robert LewisFernandez, Alfonso MartinezTaboas, Vedat Sar, Sapana Patel, & Adeline Boatin Chapter 13: Mass Psychological Trauma and PTSD: Epidemic or Cultural Illusion?

Derrick Silove, Zachary Steele, & Adrian Bauman Chapter 14: Assessment of Trauma for Aboriginal People

Beverly Raphael, Pat Delaney, & Daniel Bonner Chapter 15: Combined Psychosocial & Pharmacological Treatment of Traumatized Refugees

J. David Kinzie Chapter 16: Western Psychiatry and Difficulty Understanding and Treating Hmong Refugees

Joe Westermeyer and S. Cheng Her