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ArticleEuropean journal of psychotraumatology2020

New findings questioning the construct validity of complex posttraumatic stress disorder (cPTSD): let's take a closer look.

Julian D Ford

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Article in European journal of psychotraumatology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  13. Complex PTSD: what is the clinical utility of the diagnosis?European journal of psychotraumatology · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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1 author.

Julian D FordDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7923-0658

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This commentary provides a broader context for interpreting evidence from Latent Class and Latent Profile analyses on complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) that was provided in a recent contribution to the

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complex PTSDconstruct validity• Demonstrating construct validity for complex PTSD (CPTSD) requires more evidence than can be provided by latent class (LCA) and latent profile (LPA) analyses alone.• Variability in individual symptom levels for PTSD and CPTSD is expectable and does not constitute evidence of a lack of discriminant validity for either PTSD or CPTSD.• Detailed examination of the symptoms characterizing classes or profiles for both PTSD and CPTSD is necessary in order to characterize and test the validity of both syndromes.disorders of self organizationPTSD

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PMCPMC7006683

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