Conceptual Structure of HIV+ Women With PTSD: Trauma Construct Elaboration
Description:
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can result in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as events related to illness act as traumatic stressors. This study tested some basic hypotheses of Sewell and Cromwell's personal construct model of PTSD in HIV+ women both with and without diagnoses of PTSD. Trauma-related constructs of HIV+ women with PTSD with HIV+ non-PTSD controls at varying stages of illness were compared. The elaboration, rankings, and valence of trauma-related constructs were examined…
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Date:
August 1998
Creator:
Jones, Deborah (Deborah Lynne), 1958-
Partner:
UNT Libraries