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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Traumatic Experience"”.
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Traumatic experience of teenage pregnancies by married men: A challenge to pastoral care
… marriage. This research study is focused on the traumatic experiences that these teenagers goes through as they continue with their lives, their studies happen to be affected as some of them discontinues their studies. This research study explored a model of pastoral care in which the affected …
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Exploration of how children and young people self-construe following a traumatic experience
Trauma experience influences an individual’s emotional wellbeing, self-concept and relationships (e.g., Beck, Grant, Clapp, & Paylo, 2009) as well as increasing their risk of experiencing trauma in the future (Copeland, Keeler, Angold, & Costello, 2007). Accordingly clinical guidance for trauma …
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Working with trauma : interpersonal and process issues in therapy for people suffering from the effects of traumatic experience
… of clients engaging in an avoidance of traumatic material within therapy. The current study uses a two-part approach, combining quantitative and qualitative methods to address avoidance in therapy for PTSD. In Part 1, a correlational design is used to compare clients' coping styles of …
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Adverse Childhood Experiences(ACEs) and Nonverbal Reasoning Skills
<p>Severe stress and interpersonal traumatic experience in childhood have a cascade effect on an individual's physical and mental health. There is evidence that people with complex adverse childhood experiences have diminished cognitive abilities. However, there are few studies on the effects of …
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Enduring Belief: Performance, Trauma, Religion
… somatic knowledges developed by two distinct experiences: the practice of religious ritual and the overwhelming conditions of trauma. In this dissertation, I explore the foundational idea that the artist's body can become a site of both theological significance and traumatic memory. I examine …
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The interplay of trauma and the sublime in four fictions by Ian McEwan.
… (2005). The novels I have selected evoke traumatic experience and various versions of the sublime, particularly the eighteenth-century ideas of the sublime described by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant. These evocations of trauma and the sublime often coincide in the novels.
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The Impact of Trauma and Attachment on Eating Disorder Symptomology
… percent of participants reported at least one traumatic experience. Trauma, attachment, and body image disturbance independently predicted eating disorder severity. However, there were no mediating or moderating effects of attachment or body image disturbance on eating disorder …
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The Sparking Cycle : a culture-oriented approach to system change in oppressed communities
… that such projects can be designed to leverage a traumatic experience in order to spark the collective capacity of a community to pursue the lives its individuals have reason to value. Practitioners can conceive sparking projects to support oppressed communities in creating efforts with the …
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Coping with Carbon Monoxide (CO) exposure: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Through this research, I explore the lived experiences of 11 participants who are coping with unintentional exposure to carbon monoxide (CO), using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Approximately 60 people of all ages lose their lives from preventable CO exposure in England and Wales …
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Posttraumatic stress and growth symptoms in parents of premature infants: The role of rumination type and social support.
… hospitalisation of the infant as a potentially traumatic experience for parents. There is also a growing interest within the trauma literature, of the potentially positive psychological changes that can occur following a traumatic experience, termed posttraumatic growth (PTG). The purpose of …
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"If you keep your problems in your stomach the dogs cannot steal them" : trauma, forgiveness, and con-viviality in Rwanda : an ethnographic study following the healing and rebuilding our communities (HROC) project in Gisenyi, Rwanda
… in Rwanda. The genocide in 1994 was unarguably a traumatic experience for the population in Rwanda, and it damaged common modes of social interaction. But for those I spoke to, forgiveness was important to the process of healing...
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Exploring the Dynamics of Participation in a Grassroots Kindness Movement: A case study of the Actively Caring for People Movement
… required participation, history of traumatic experience, belief that society is in danger, extroversion, and social action motivation. Findings are integrated within the context of Geller's (2016) model of empowerment.
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A study of U.S. adoption breakdown : exploring current factors associated with breakdown and challenging times in adoption adjustment.
… the family and child. Children and parents who experience adoption breakdown suffer adverse residual effects of a traumatic experience. Given the dire outcomes following adoption breakdown, additional research is needed to continue to explore this phenomenon and identify ways to decrease the …
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I'm not going back to the Township; Re-imagining 'trauma' as tragedy.
… in the South African context is affected by traumatic experience and to engage with trauma, requires social and historical relations to be considered. The research focuses on how African oral traditions, modern poetics and music might be used as a process of re-imagining the tragic form and …
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Posttraumatic growth amongst community volunteers in Indonesia following the Yogyakarta earthquake in 2006
… can result in detrimental outcomes, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Research has also shown that traumatic experience can result in positive outcomes like posttraumatic growth (PTG) which is expressed among other things as more appreciation for life and greater personal strength. …
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Posttraumatic Growth In Inmates: An Exploration Of Cumulative Adverse Life Experiences And Its Relationship To Growth
… cumulative trauma using the Adverse Childhood Experiences survey (ACEs) and the Trauma History Questionnaire (THQ) to find the effect of cumulative trauma on posttraumatic growth, the positive psychological change that may develop following a traumatic experience. Against the hypotheses and …
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Healing Together: Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence and Their Families
Sexual assault is a pervasive traumatic experience in Canada which can have long-lasting consequences on the quality of life of victims. Literature has shown that the impacts of sexual assault can result in secondary traumatization for a survivor’s loved ones. Existing interventions for supporting …
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Behaviour symptomatology and an intervention approach with children of divorce in a school setting
South African society has been plagued by traumatic events that have influenced many people including children. Within a systemic context children are impacted upon by various micro-systems within which they find themselves, for example, the family, the school and church amongst others, as well as …
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A Vanishing Act: Gulag Narratives and Their Afterlife
… boundaries of the genre in order to express the traumatic experience of imprisonment. Moreover, through the paradigm of forgetting, I argue that the past was overlooked by a misleading political focus on the future, by the persistent use of the structures of communist discourse and by the refusal …
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“Women of Allah” and “The Book of Kings:” Shirin Neshat’s Narratives of Returning Home
… relationship to an event that caused her a traumatic experience, the experience that interrupted her sense of identity due to the drastic social and political changes in a place she knew as home. Neshat’s romance with the past shaped her visual language in “Women of Allah” as she confronted …
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