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Showing 1 to 20 of 188 for “"Traumatic events"”.
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Cognitions in Non Life-Threatening Traumatic Events
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating condition associated with diffuse impairment and distress. The onset of PTSD requires a traumatic stressor, an event in which an individual experienced or was confronted with death, serious injury, or threat to bodily integrity. An emerging …
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Gender Differences in Judging the Severity of Traumatic Events
… regarding victims experiencing a dramatized traumatic event. The primary hypothesis was that female participants would rate the repercussions of the dramatized trauma as more severe than the male participants. In addition, female participants were hypothesized to rate all of the four video …
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Suicide and community traumatic events: is there a connection?
… if a relationship exists between community traumatic events (CTEs) such as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the temporal distribution of suicide in a metropolitan Louisiana parish (county) in the Southern United States over the period of January 1, 1994 to December 31, 2004. The …
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Emergency service workers' coping in response to traumatic events : associations with psychiatric symptoms
… relationship between coping strategies and posttraumatic symptomology in emergency service workers in the Western Cape. Three fundamental coping strategies were assessed: seeking social support, problem-solving, and avoidance. I hypothesised that seeking social support and problem-solving would …
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Normalizing the Abnormal: Self-Identified Traumatic Events and Critical Care Nurses, A Focused Ethnography
… (CCNs) encounter singular and often repetitive traumatic events (TEs) within the work environment, which lead to adverse effects such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, secondary traumatic stress disorder, burnout, compassion fatigue, moral distress, substance use, and …
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An exploration of female frontline officers' experiences of potentially traumatic events: an IPA study
… into female officers experiences of potentially traumatic events within response policing in the UK. Sample: Purposive sampling was employed to select participants for the study and recruitment carried out through a snowball method by approaching the researcher’s existing contacts within the …
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A prospective study of potentially traumatic events: associations between types and dimensions of events and outcomes.
… lifetime and recent exposure to potentially traumatic life events (PTE) among undergraduate and community college students, to assess the relation between event exposure and a broad range of outcomes (i.e., mental and physical health, life satisfaction, GPA) and to compare students who were …
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Resilience Following Adversity: The Role of Religious Coping and Social Support Among Black Youth After Traumatic Events
… subsequent traumas. The COVID-19 pandemic was a traumatic stressor that affected everyone in some capacity, but some individuals were disproportionately impacted more than others such as Black Americans. Research has shown that Black individuals are more susceptible to experiencing traumas such …
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Unfolding Untapped Stories: A Narrative Inquiry of Teachers' Experiences of Working With Students Who Have Faced Trauma or Traumatic Events.
… working with students who have faced trauma or traumatic events. The number of children facing trauma exposures to violence, crime, and abuse in the classroom has increased. The insufficient knowledge among educators about the effect of trauma on students lays the foundation to improve training …
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PTSD: A Predictor of Pain Severity in Fibromyalgia Patients
Traumatic life events have been frequently observed in chronic pain patients in empirical research. More specifically, fibromyalgia (FM) has been reported to occur more often after a traumatic event. As posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is also preceded by a traumatic event and has been …
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Understanding our students : how aspects of students' pre-collegiate lives correlate with self advocacy, confidence, and risk taking
… To measure the extent to which potentially traumatic events correlate with the self confidence, self-advocacy, and student risk-taking for MIT students, a survey of mechanical engineering undergraduates was conducted. Results suggest that ACEs are prevalent among the mechanical engineering …
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The coherence of traumatic and non-traumatic memories: A tale of equivalence
… about the mechanisms by which our memories for traumatic events operate. In one view, the extremely negative nature of traumatic events results in incomplete encoding, leaving memories for these events incoherent. In this view, incoherence promotes distress and therefore must be targeted over …
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Which Events Constitute Criteria A1 of PTSD? The Phenomenology of Psychological Trauma in Youth
… trauma in youth. It was hypothesized that events reported as traumatic could be classified into one of seventeen trauma categories, that levels of impairment in traumatized youth would be higher than levels of impairment in non-traumatized youth, and that traumatic events reported would be …
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Traumatic Appropriation in Maus and In The Shadow of No Towers
… artist to deploy the cultural capital of certain traumatic events towards the recognition of other traumatic events.
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Secondary Traumatic Stress & Emergency Department Registered Nurses in Ontario: A Cross-Sectional Study
This thesis explores the prevalence of secondary traumatic stress (STS) among nurses working in Ontario emergency departments. Nurses can develop STS via exposure to traumatic events, such as death, injury, or critical illness (Badger, 2001). Emergency department (ED) nurses are especially …
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Reconstructing trauma and recovery: life narratives of survivors of political violence during apartheid
… the collapse of apartheid in South Africa. The traumatic events experienced by victims occurred during 1960 - 1993. This retrospective study involved victims of both sides of the conflict. The sample comprised twenty survivors of gross human rights violations who suffered: detention, torture, …
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The Role of Identity in Trauma and PTSD
… research on the consequences of potentially traumatic events (PTEs) on individuals, especially when these events are perceived as self-defining. However, there is a gap in the literature on the specific mechanisms involved in how self-defining events contribute to PTSD. Modern theories of …
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Icelandic emergency responders
… one of the most common complaints being post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study had four specific aims. First, assess the prevalence of work-related traumatic events over the past 12 months. Second, examine if prevalence of probable PTSD diagnosis and severity of PTSD symptoms (PTSS) …
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