This treatise represents my primary research that assesses who would be most likely to develop PTSD when exposed to a traumatic life event (TLE). After working at Ground Zero, in the aftermath of 9/11, it became abundantly clear that an assessment method was necessary to triage individuals to determine service delivery priorities for stress-related issues. This work was generated with a prevention model in mind and attempted to develop a non- intrusive means of assessing at-risk status for those who are most likely to develop the most severe forms of this disease. A theoretical...