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Article Evaluation

Complex PTSD

I evaluated an article for Complex PTSD. Overall the article could use some more information. Generally links appeared to work and the article had citations for the information contributed. I was distracted by how many forms of interpersonal trauma were listed in the opening paragraph. Listing more than say three examples would be distracting, even if they weren't skewed towards one type of trauma. I think that being that a central component of Complex PTSD is the chronic exposure to the trauma that more should have been said about this, rather than a brief mention. Later the article discusses symptom clusters and provides an example of each symptom may manifest. However, examples are only provided for 5 out of 6 of the clusters. Somaticization was left untouched (but the author did provide a link to the somaticization page). I also skimmed through the references and noticed that one (Courtois & Ford (2009)) is used often. Being that this source is from 2009, and update for the information would be a good idea. On the talk page, aside from quite a bit arguments, I did notice someone else made the comment about interpersonal drama being over-represented in the opening paragraph. There was also an interesting discussion about Complex PTSD and the APA not officially recognizing it as a disorder. Some commentators argued that the page should be taken down because it's not an official disorder, while others argued that the APA doesn't have a final say on this and that it's still being deliberated.

This article is part of three different WikiProjects and has been rated B (Mid-Importance). We haven't gotten to speak about complex trauma in class yet. However, the opening paragraph that listed too many examples of trauma did make me think of our class exercise. This is the reason why I was able to identify that too many examples were given because one couldn't possibly list every type of trauma.

Link to Sandbox which has Full Article draft