ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Annotated Bibliography



Annotated Bibliography

1. Schaal, Susanne; Dusingizemungu, Jean-Pierre; Jacob, Nadja; Neuner, Frank; Elbert, Thomas. (2012) “Associations Between Prolonged Grief Disorder, Depression, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Anxiety in Rwandan Genocide Survivors”. Death Studies, Feb, Vol. 36 Issue 2, p97-117. This paper discusses a number of studies have demonstrated that symptoms of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) represent a symptom cluster distinct from bereavement-related depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The aim of the present study was to confirm and extend these findings using the most recent criteria defining PGD. The authors interviewed a total of 400 orphaned or widowed survivors of the Rwandan genocide. The syndromes were strongly linked to each other with a high comorbidity. Principal axis factoring resulted in the emergence of 4 different factors. The symptoms of depression, along with the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral symptoms of PGD, loaded on the first factor, symptoms of anxiety on the second factor, symptoms of PTSD on the third factor, and the separation distress symptoms of PGD on the fourth factor. This indicates that the concept of PGD includes symptoms that are conceptually related to depression. However, the symptom cluster of separation distress presents a grief-specific dimension that may surface unrelated to depressive symptoms.

2. Katsounari, Ioanna. (2011) “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder And Psychosis”. Mental Health Practice, Dec, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p14-18.

This paper discusses the sociopolitical and historical contexts in which trauma takes place can have a major influence on the expression of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with or without psychotic features. This article shows that mental health professionals should understand the relationship between contextual factors, trauma and psychosis, particularly in immigrants and asylum seekers who have experienced trauma after torture. In helping such patients, it is important to understand the context of post-traumatic reactions, pre-morbid personality influences, individual strategies for the preservation of dignity and factors in host countries that may increase paranoia among people with PTSD, and to develop psychotherapies that are integrated with social support systems.

3. Mikulincer, Mario; Ein-Dor, Tsachi; Solomon, Zahava; Shaver, Phillip R. (2011) “Trajectories of Attachment Insecurities Over a 17-Year Period: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of the Impact of War Captivity and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder”. Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology, Nov, Vol. 30 Issue 9, p960-984.

This paper discusses in this study, we assessed the 17-year trajectories of attachment insecurities (anxiety and avoidance) and examined their relations to having been a prisoner of war and suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The sample included two groups of Israeli veterans from the 1973 Yom Kippur war: ex-prisoners of war and comparable control individuals who had not been held captive. They completed self-report measures of anxious and avoidant attachment and PTSD at three time points: 18, 30, and 35 years after the war. Ex-POWs were less secure with respect to attachment than the controls at the initial assessment, and although the controls experienced a decline in attachment insecurity over the 17-year period, the anxiety and avoidance scores of the ex-POWs increased over ...