Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Practice Briefs

Contributor: Carlos P. Zalaquett

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is “…a delayed or protracted response to a stressful event or situation (of either brief or long duration) of an exceptionally threatening or catastrophic nature, which is likely to cause pervasive distress in almost anyone” (World Health Organization, 2010).

Citation:

Zalaquett, C. P. (2016, August). Post traumatic stress disorder [Practice Brief]. Counseling Nexus. https://doi.org/10.63134/LXQN1424

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  • container title
    Practice Briefs
  • publisher
    American Counseling Association
  • publisher place
    Alexandria, VA
  • rights holder
    American Counseling Association
  • version
    1
  • doi