victims of natural disasters

Post-traumatic stress disorder remains a difficult, urgent, and prevalent problem among combat veterans, but millions of nonveterans experience the condition too. A new study in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry finds that compared to what the Veterans Health Administration and Defense Department make available, treatment resources for nonveterans are much less cohesive and helpful. "For the other people affected by PTSD -- victims of sexual assault, child abuse and natural disasters -- there really isn't an organized body of research that generates guidance for how they and their caregivers should deal with their PTSD," said lead author Judith Bentkover...

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