This book presents more than 300 entries in straightforward, jargon free language for anyone researching or coping with the effects of trauma. Some topics include Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), Acute stress disorder, Addiction, Adult attachment projective (AAP), Alternative treatments, Anxiety disorders, Attachment styles disorders, Battered child syndrome, Battered woman syndrome (BWS), Bipolar disorder, Body dysmorphic disorder, Borderline personality disorder (BPD), Briquet’s syndrome, Bullycide and bullying, Child abuse and neglect (CAN), Child physical abuse (CPA), Child sexual abuse (CSA), Combat stress reaction (CSR), Critical incident stress debriefing (CISD), Cutting and self-mutilation / self-harm, Divorce, Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), False memory, Fight-or-flight response, Ganser syndrome, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), Hysteria, Learned helplessness, Lifton’s characteristics of a survivor, Major depression, Medications used with trauma, Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), Panic disorder, Physiology of trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Post-Vietnam syndrome (PVS), PTSD checklist (PCL), Rape trauma syndrome (RTS), Recovered memory, September 11, Shell shock, Social perspectives on trauma, Stockholm syndrome, Stress, Substance abuse, Suicide, Survivor guilt, Terrorism, Types of therapy, Traumatic brain injury (TBI), Type I, II, III trauma, Vicarious traumatization.