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- Title
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Vietnam Veterans: Assessment in a Forensic Setting.
- Authors
Lipkin, John O.; Scurfield, Raymond M.; Blank Jr., Arthur S.
- Abstract
The recognition and proper evaluation of Vietnam veterans' demonstrating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder syndromes is reviewed. The special problems of accurate diagnosis and assessment of former Vietnam combatants is emphasized. The forensic evaluation of Vietnam veterans' raising the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder syndrome in either civil or criminal proceedings is comprehensively discussed. The question "What are the clinical techniques necessary to accomplish a competent forensic evaluation of the Vietnam veterans?" is specifically addressed with special emphasis on legal dispositions and treatment impilcations. The relationship between the criminal acts of combat veterans and their exposure to the psychological trauma of war is explored.
- Subjects
VIETNAM; POST-traumatic stress disorder; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; WAGER of battle; NEUROSES; ANXIETY
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 1983, Vol 1, Issue 3, p51
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bsl.2370010307