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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"effects of trauma"”.
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Understanding the potential effects of trauma on refugees’ language learning processes
<p>In the 21st century alone, millions of refugees have been displaced from their homes, often through compounded traumatic experiences. Many of these refugees have resettled in foreign countries where they are forced to quickly learn a new language in order to survive in their new home. As …
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The Effects of Trauma Events on Substance Use and Depressive Symptoms among Homeless Youth
… suggests that many homeless youth have a history of childhood abuse, intimate partner violence (IPV), and street victimization. These trauma events are independently linked to risk behaviors, but the effects of multiple trauma events are less understood. The goals of this study were to 1) examine …
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Effects of Trauma Induced Stress on Attention, Executive Functioning, Processing Speed, and Resilience in Urban Children
… children who have experienced stress as a result of poverty and traumatic events may be at increased risk for cognitive difficulties, including attention, executive functioning, and processing speed (Blair, Granger, & Razza, 2005; DeBellis, Hooper, & Sapia, 2005). Prevalence rates among urban …
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Women Writing Trauma: How Female Writers Use Narrative Voice in Fiction to Represent the Effects of Trauma
When an individual experiences a trauma, one thing often lost is the ability to use language to explain the ordeal and associated emotions. The aim of the critical study is to examine how female writers use narrative voice in fiction to represent the effects of trauma. I will discuss how an …
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“It’s Tough but it’s Worth it”: Psychosocial Counsellors’ Experience of Working with Iraqi Refugees in Jordan: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
… study focused on exploring the experiences of psychosocial counsellors who were working with Iraqis who had fled to Jordan after the 2003 regime change. The extensive research on the effects of trauma work on therapists has been focused on the negative effects of trauma work and is mostly …
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The Australian Apology in Fiction: Gail Jones's Sorry
… and a white girl, Perdita, and hints at an ideal of reconciliation. It is thus against the background of the Australian Reconciliation that my dissertation first attempts to set apart colonial trauma from the Eurocentric trauma model, avoiding in this way any conflation of national tragedies and …
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A Meta-Analytic Review of the Relationship Between Interpersonal Trauma and Committed Romantic Relationships
<p>The effects of trauma can be wide reaching and long lasting. In effort to create more comprehensive theories for the effects of trauma, there is a focus on the association between trauma and intimate relationships. For example, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; APA 2013) is associated with …
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Traumatized Through Healing: The Stigmatization and Misrecognition of Trauma Among American Physicians
… we address it. This dissertation focuses on the effects of trauma on physicians and analyzes how the professional identity of physicians fails to provide adequate solutions for coping with the damaging effects of trauma. It focuses on the popular concern over “physician burnout” and the …
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The Experiences of Women Living in Social Housing with Mental Illness and Trauma Histories
The experiences of women in social housing are shaped by their gender, mental health, and trauma, which is overlooked in existing literature. I conducted this research to fill a gap in existing literature. My thesis was conducted in two phases: 1) a scoping review exploring the experiences of women …
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Trauma and Poetry: A Look at Two Poems by Carolyn Forché
… and “On Earth” to explore ways in which traumatic grief is conveyed through poetic expression and structure. The first chapter, “Finding a Home for the Dead: Processing Trauma and Remembering the Lost,” looks at ways in which poetic testimony honors and makes sacred space for the …
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Competencies needed to prepare intermediate life support (ils) paramedics in Gauteng to manage traumatic stress in the work environment
This qualitative study explored the effects of trauma as well as coping mechanisms used to deal with post-traumatic stress experienced by ILS paramedics providing emergency care services in the Gauteng Province, South Africa. It also looked at the competencies needed to cope with traumatic stress …
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Resiliency in Lesbians with a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Implications for Clinical Practice
… was a collective case where lesbian survivors of childhood sexual abuse were studied. Resiliency is a combination of personality traits and environmental influences that serve to protect an individual from the harmful psychological effects of trauma (Bogar & Hulse-Killaky, 2006). The focus of …
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Who Died: Redefining the Elegy Through Affect and Trauma
… set structure or content, but rather are poetic effects of trauma and affect. Both have been defined and redefined by critical scholars, but there is still a division about their use. The beginning of the project will pull together Paul De Man, Cathy Caruth, Theresa Brennan, and Diana Fuss to …
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PSYCHOSOCIAL RISK FACTORS FOR CYCLICAL URBAN VIOLENCE
… Though this population experiences higher rates of violent victimization and perpetration, race should not be analyzed as an isolated variable. The social disorganization theory posits that social, cultural, and structural environmental factors shape a person’s behavior; this theory would suggest …
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Exploring the Effects of the Second Step-Resilient Kids Program on the Academic Achievement of Traumatized Students
<p>Exploring the Effects of the Second Step – Resilient Kids Program on the Academic Achievement of Traumatized Students <em>Program Evaluation</em></p> <p>In a school setting the effects of trauma can negatively impact learning, academically as well as behaviorally, and make it difficult for …
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Trauma of the Sudden Death of a Child: The Impact on Couple Relationship
A traumatic life event such as the death of a child can be very devastating and confusing for many couples and people tend to respond in different ways to such trauma due to different factors such as gender differences. Research studies have traditionally focused on the personal effects of trauma …
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Examining the Relations Among Trauma, Distress, Resilience, and Physical Health
<p>This study examined the role of traumatic distress as a mediator in the relation between trauma exposure and somatic malaise and healthcare utilization. Resilience was examined as a moderator between trauma exposure and somatic malaise and healthcare utilization, then between trauma exposure and …
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The Relationship of Level of Traumatic Exposure, Perceived Stress, and Resilience with Salivary Cortisol and Salivary Alpha-Amylase Diurnal Rhythm in Palestinian Children 10-12 Years Exposed to Chronic War Violence
… war, and genocide exist across the world and often the innocent children and civilians become victims. War and long-term violence have potentially harmful psychological and physiological effects on children. There are limited studies on the effect of prolonged armed conflict on the child's …
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