Borderline between normal and pathological responses / Patricia Casey -- Limits to the phenomenological approach to the diagnosis of adjustment disorders / Peter Tyrer -- Conceptual framework and controversies in adjustment disorders / James J. Strain and Patricia Casey -- Adjustment disorders : epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment / James J. Strain -- Acute stress disorder / Richard Bryant -- Posttraumatic stress disorder : epidemiology diagnosis, and treatment / Amy Lehrner, Laura Pratchett and Rachel Yehuda -- Disintegrated experience : dissociation and stress / David Spiegel -- Prolonged complicated grief and its treatment / Katherine Shear and Colleen E. Gribbin -- Therapeutic adaptations of resilience : helping patients overcome the effects of trauma and stress / Brian M. Iacoviello and Dennis S. Charney -- Medical-legal aspects of trauma and stressor-related disorders / James J. Strain, Patricia Casey, P. Resnick and H. Weinstein.