Assessing PTSD Symptoms

The Oxford Handbook of Traumatic Stress Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bovin, Michelle J ^a   Weathers, Frank W ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Interview; Malingering; Psychophysiology; Ptsd; Self report

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923423348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195399066.013.0016     Document Type: Chapter

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