Evelyn J. Bromet is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at State University of New York, Stony Brook. Elie G. Karam is Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology at Balamand University, St Georges University Medical Center, IDRAAC, Lebanon. Karestan C. Koenen is Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard University. Dan J. Stein is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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• Part I. Introduction: 1. The global epidemiology of trauma exposure and PTSD Evelyn J. Bromet, Elie G. Karam, Karestan C. Koenen and Dan J. Stein; 2. Methods of the world mental health surveys Ronald C. Kessler, Steven G. Heeringa, Beth-Ellen Pennell and Alan M. Zaslavsky; Part II. Epidemiology of Trauma Exposure: 3. Cross-national prevalence, distributions and clusters of trauma exposure Corina Benjet, Jean-Pierre Lépine, Marina Piazza, Victoria Shahly, Arieh Shalev and Dan J. Stein; 4. Childhood adversities and preexisting psychopathology as predictors of trauma Victoria Shahly, Corina Benjet, Graça Cardoso, Louisa Degenhardt and Elie G. Karam; Part III. Epidemiology of PTSD: 5. Population prevalence of PTSD Karestan C. Koenen, Andrew Ratanatharathorn, Evelyn J. Bromet, Elie G. Karam and Dan J. Stein; 6. The associations of PTSD with secondary mental and physical health disorders Ronald C. Kessler, Peter de Jonge, Yueqin Huang, John J. McGrath, Elie G. Karam and Kate Scott; 7. The impairments associated with PTSD Ronald C. Kessler, Somnath Chatterji, Yanling He, Daphna Levinson, Elie G. Karam and Jordi Alonso; 8. Patterns of treatment and barriers to care in PTSD Graham Thornicroft, Sara Evans-Lacko, Karestan C. Koenen, Viviane Kovess-Masféty, David R. Williams and Ronald C. Kessler; Part IV. Factors Influencing the Onset and Course of PTSD: 9. The effects of trauma type, timing, accumulation and sequencing Howard Liu, Laura Helena Andrade, Josep Maria Haro, Dan J. Stein and Ronald C. Kessler; 10. The effects of childhood adversities Katie A. McLaughlin, Oye Gureje, Norito Kawakami, Karestan C. Koenen and Ronald C. Kessler; 11. The effects of prior psychopathology Ronald C. Kessler, Evelyn J. Bromet, Beth-Ellen Pennell and Elie G. Karam; 12. Sexual assault among women Kate Scott, Evelyn J. Bromet, Ronny Bruffaerts, Karestan C. Koenen, Yolanda Torres and Ronald C. Kessler; 13. Motor vehicle collisions Dan J. Stein, Hristo Hinkov, Maria Elena Medina-Mora and Ronald C. Kessler; 14. The unexpected death of a loved one Lukoye Atwoli, Dan J. Stein, Margreet ten Have and Ronald C. Kessler; 15. Natural and human-made disasters Evelyn J. Bromet, Silvia Florescu, Giovanni de Girolamo, Fernando Navarro-Mateu and Elie G. Karam; 16. Patterns and predictors of the course of PTSD Anthony J. Rosellini, John Fayyad, Karestan C. Koenen and Ronald C. Kessler; Part V. Dissecting the Clinical Picture: 17. DSM-5 and ICD-11 definitions of PTSD: inverstigating 'narrow' and 'broad approaches Dan J. Stein, Matthew J. Friedman, Katie A. McLaughlin, Kate M. Scott and Ronald C. Kessler; 18. The role of Criterion A2 in the DSM-IV Diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder Elie G. Karam, Evelyn J. Bromet, Ayelet Meron Ruscio, Dan. J. Stein and Ronald C. Kessler; 19. Threshold versus subthreshold PTSD Katie A. McLaughlin, Koen Demyttenaere, Karestan C. Koenen, José Posada-Villa, Ayelet Meron Ruscio and Ronald C. Kessler; 20. Dissociative versus non-dissociative PTSD Dan J. Stein, Brendan Bunting, José Miguel Caldas de Almeida, Ayelet Meron Ruscio, David Spiegel and Ronald C. Kessler; 21. Simple versus complex PTSD Elie G. Karam, Evelyn J. Bromet, Ronald C. Kessler, Maria Carmen Viana and Karestan C. Koenen; Part VI. Conclusions and Future Directions: 22. Data mining to predict PTSD onset in the wake of trauma exposure Ronald C. Kessler, Sherri Rose, Paul Stang and Alan M. Zaslavsky; 23. The population burden of PTSD Ronald C. Kessler, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Jordi Alonso, Sing Lee and Karestan C. Koenen; 24. Conclusions and future directions Evelyn J. Bromet, Elie G. Karam, Karestan C. Koenen and Dan J. Stein.