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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"developmental trauma"”.
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Risk Factors of Cyberbullying Victimization: The Impact of Developmental Trauma
<p>Trauma has been considered as one of the significant causes of psychological distress, especially if the traumatic event occurred in the childhood. At the same time, due to wide popularity of social media as a source of communication, cyberbullying emerged as a new way to harass someone, with …
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What did I do? I don’t know. Generating fiction to examine the tacit maternal knowing I bring to my Theraplay® practice with children who are experiencing relational and developmental trauma.
… children who are experiencing relational and developmental trauma (R&DT), I reflected on my embodied responses to my clinical Theraplay practice. I used a heuristic inquiry (HI) process to create a safe space for not knowing. This enabled my self-search to lead to a creative synthesis in the …
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‘It gives me hope for myself’ An interpretative phenomenological analysis of six clients’ experiences of identity- oriented psychotrauma therapy (IoPT): a psychotherapy method specifically designed to work with processes of developmental trauma
As the subject of psychological trauma has become a strongly emerging field of theoretical development and research over the past 50 years, a sub-section has emerged which focuses specifically on trauma that children experience in their relationships to close attachment figures. This has been …
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Borderline Personality Disorder: How and why do gender and psychological trauma increase the risk of diagnosis?
… in women, which has a strong association with trauma during childhood. In this thesis I explore these features of BPD further, to elucidate how and why female gender and psychological trauma lead individuals to be diagnosed with BPD. This thesis begins with a review of the literature …
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Necessary and Sufficient: Examining the Role of Attachment Trauma and Psychological Maltreatment as Primary Etiological Factors in the Development of Borderline Personality Disorder
… personality disorder (BPD) profess that trauma is not required in the etiology of BPD and place a significant focus on biological predispositions. This review sought to evaluate the current paradigms regarding BPD and examine whether trauma may be the most significant contributing factor …
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Therapist's construction of trauma work and negotiating the therapeutic relationship
… the discourses therapists use to construct trauma. Five therapists (two counselling psychologists, one clinical psychologist, one gestalt therapist and one psychotherapist), who self-identified as working with trauma, were interviewed. The transcripts were analysed using Foucauldian …
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Measuring Trauma: A Pilot Application for Children and Adolescents
The current definition of a ‘traumatic event’ in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition—Text Revision (DSM—IV TR; APA, 2000) may be too narrow to describe the myriad of difficult experiences that many youth undergo. Furthermore, youth may develop a distinct …
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Measuring Trauma: A Pilot Application for Children and Adolescents
The current definition of a ‘traumatic event’ in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition—Text Revision (DSM—IV TR; APA, 2000) may be too narrow to describe the myriad of difficult experiences that many youth undergo. Furthermore, youth may develop a distinct …
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Exploring Perspectives of School Refusal in Second-Level Education in Ireland
… experience school refusal have prior exposure to developmental trauma, attachment disruption, and adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s). Others experienced distress and disillusionment within the current education system. The influence of family socioeconomic status, unequal access to support …
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Consume happy: the relationship with food for fat women with a history of early psychological adversity
… this population that has its roots in the early trauma and attachment difficulties. This research proposes that the cumulative effect of the multiple ongoing traumas and challenges of an emotionally disadvantaged early caregiving system, laid the foundation for a complex relationship with food in …
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The power of unsaid suffering: a reflexive thematic analysis on countertransference in psychological work with fibromyalgia and related symptoms
… While existing research show connections with developmental trauma, attachment insecurity, and alexithymia; the relational dimension of this condition remains largely unexplored. This study uses psychoanalytic theory, especially relational ideas about countertransference and mind-body …
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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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Exploring The Perspectives Of Private High School Students With Adverse Childhood Experiences On Trauma-Based Approaches
… (ACE) (Anderson et al., 2022). The effects of trauma include hindrances to skill acquisition and task completion because of how one’s executive functioning is inhibited (Cohen & Barron, 2021; Hubel et al., 2020; McClain, 2021). Students with trauma may experience “emotional, relational, …