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PILOTS Database added to the web site
Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008, 12:19 pm by Theresa Norton
PILOTS is an abbreviation for Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress.  The PILOTS database is produced by the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.  According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs web site, "The goal of the PILOTS database is to include citations to all literature on PTSD and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage."

Subject Coverage

   * post-traumatic stress disorder or acute stress disorder (with or without reference to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
   * the assessment, description, prevention, or treatment of any psychiatric disorder, especially dissociative identity disorder (formerly called multiple personality disorder), other dissociative disorders, or borderline personality disorder, associated etiologically or epidemiologically with exposure to a traumatic event, or to an event experienced as traumatic by the population under discussion
   * the preparation or provision of mental health services to a traumatized population or a population at risk of experiencing traumatic events
   * issues of professional ethics, scientific methodology, or public policy relating to traumatized populations.

Dates of Coverage
1871-current

Update Frequency
Monthly.
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