News From the Cause
PTSD Has Unreliable Diagnostic Criteria: (PSYCHIATRIC TIMES)
July 14, 2009
PTSD symptoms may not be linked to trauma. Bodkin and colleagues' showed that among those for whom pharmacological treatment of major depression was considered, patients with and without a trauma history met the diagnostic criteria for PTSD at identical rates (78%). Gold and coworkers' showed that college students without a traumatic experience were more likely to meet the other diagnostic criteria of PTSD. In 1988, the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study found that 30.9% of Vietnam veterans had full-blown PTSD-but only 15% of these vets had been assigned to combat units. click here to view
