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In Police Who Responded To The World Trade Center Disaster, The Burden Of Full & Subsyndromal PTSD

June 7, 2012 by

Studies have found that police demonstrated considerable resilience to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) compared to other disaster workers after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center (WTC). This has been attributed to effective screening and extensive training in the police force. New research suggests that, despite this greater resilience to PTSD, 15...

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