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Schnurr, P.P., & Green, B.L. (2004). Trauma and health: physical health consequences of exposure to extreme stress. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

This book provides a comprehensive summary of findings on trauma and physical health and aims to integrate these findings with research on the health effects of nontraumatic stress. It is based on a model, described fully in the final chapter, in which PTSD and other psychological reactions to traumatic exposure are the essential mechanism through which exposure affects physical health. The model includes biological, attentional, and behavioral components as additional mechanisms. [Adapted from Text, p. 7] TOPICS TREATED: A context for understanding the physical health consequences of exposure to extreme stress; Trauma, PTSD, and health status; Costs and health care utilization associated with traumatic experiences; Depression, trauma, and cardiovascular health; Coping and health: a comparison of the stress and trauma literatures; Psychoneuroimmunology and trauma; PTSD, allostatic load, and medical illness; Somatization and multiple idiopathic physical symptoms: relationship to traumatic events and PTSD; Trauma, PTSD, and health risk behaviors; Understanding relationships among trauma, PTSD, and health outcomes.