Trauma, Psychopathology, and Violence Causes, Correlates, or Consequences? American Psychopathological Association Series

Trauma, Psychopathology, and Violence: Causes, Correlates, or Consequences critically examines correlates, consequences, and potential causal relationships involving trauma, psychopathology, and violence. The authors address methodological and theoretical challenges to understanding the interrelationships among trauma, psychopathology, and violence from the perspective of their own research fields. Chapters focus on different types of traumas, traumas occurring at different developmental stages and in different contexts, and the contributions of biological and genetic factors in understanding psychopathology and violence. Each of the chapters offers recommendations for needed research. The book is divided into six topical areas: (1) Setting the context; (2) Biological and genetic factors in understanding trauma, psychopathology and violence; (3) Trauma in childhood and risk of psychopathology and violence; (4) Culture and community context in understanding trauma, psychopathology, and violence; (5) Responses to disasters and terrorism; and (6) Trauma, psychopathology, and violence in the military. The third volume in the American Psychopathological Association series, Trauma, Psychopathology, and Violence is a much needed addition to the scholarship of the mental health consequences of violence and trauma.

Section I: Setting the Context. Chapter 1: Posttraumatic Syndromes and the Problem of Heterogeneity, Naomi Breslau. Section II: BIOLOGICAL AND GENETIC FACTORS IN UNDERSTANDING TRAUMA, PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND VIOLENCE. Chapter 2: Epigenetic Pathways and the Consequences of Adversity and Trauma, Tania L. Roth and Frances A. Champagne. Chapter 3: Teasing Out the Role of Genotype in the Development of Psychopathology in Maltreated Children, Sara R. Jaffee. Section III: TRAUMA IN CHILDHOOD AND RISK OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND VIOLENCE. Chapter 4: The intergenerational transmission of family violence: the neurobiology of the relationship between child victimization, parental mental health and addiction, Michael D. De Bellis. Chapter 5: Predictors, Correlates, and Consequences of Trajectories of Antisocial Personality Disorder Symptoms from Early Adolescence to Mid-30s, Patricia Cohen, Thomas Crawford, Henian Chen, Stephanie Kasen, and Kathy Gordon. Chapter 6: Children and Adolescents in Disasters, War, and Terrorism: Developmental Pathways to Psychopathology and Resilience, Angela J. Narayan and Ann S. Masten. Section IV: CULTURE AND COMMUNITY CONTEXT IN UNDERSTANDING TRAUMA, PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, AND VIOLENCE. Chapter 7: Four Meanings of Community in Disaster, Fran H. Norris. Chapter 8: Epidemiology of violence exposure in the home and community and children's physical health risk: the urban asthma/allergy paradigm, Rosalind J. Wright. Section V: Responses to Disasters and Terrorism. Chapter 9: An Exploration of Causality in the Development and Timing of Disaster-Related PTSD, Carol S. North. Chapter 10: Causal thinking and complex systems approaches for understanding the consequences of trauma, Melissa Tracy, Magdalena Cerda, and Sandro Galea. Section VI: EXAMINING TRAUMA, PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, AND VIOLENCE IN THE MILITARY. Chapter 11: Trauma, Psychopathology and Violence in Recent Combat Veterans, Deirdre MacManus and Simon Wessely. Section VII: PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. Chapter 12: Childhood Trauma, Psychopathology and Violence: Disentangling Causes, Consequences, and Correlates, Cathy Spatz Widom and Sally J. Czaja.

Cathy Spatz Widom, PhD Distinguished Professor Department of Psychology John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York New York, NY