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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"psychological trauma"”.
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Psychological trauma : discourses of childhood sexual abuse
… in examining conventional, dominant ideas about psychological trauma following the sexual abuse or molestation of girls. The empirical and clinical literature in this area is reviewed, to contextualize two studies in the first part of the thesis. Case studies of three women who disclosed …
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Accidental falls and psychological trauma in older people.
… of death or injury to an older person. The psychological burden experienced by older adults after a fall adds to recovery difficulties. Persistent psychological problems post-fall may be related to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The limited research on the phenomenon suggested that …
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Exploring the Consequences of Psychological Trauma: The View From The Swamp
This thesis seeks to explore the experience of relationships in individuals who define themselves as having Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). The diagnosis of DID has been controversial for many years and the existence of the experience of multiple identities questioned. This study is …
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Child Massage Integrated Therapy: A Preliminary Intervention Manual for Psychological Trauma Treatment
… massage therapy component to traditional child trauma psychotherapy.Child Massage Integrated Therapy (CMIT) offers a standardized protocol to support the implementation of a replicable treatment modality that fosters critical somatic resources for traumatized children within real-world settings. …
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Psychological trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder in a South African birth cohort study
Psychological trauma - including exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) - is highly prevalent in South Africa, and may result in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a subset of individuals. Pregnant women and new mothers are particularly vulnerable; and trauma exposure and PTSD in this …
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Which Events Constitute Criteria A1 of PTSD? The Phenomenology of Psychological Trauma in Youth
… this study was to explore the phenomenology of psychological 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 …
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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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Delineating Trauma Mechanisms and Interventions: How Psychological Trauma Difficulties Develop and how they can be Treated Effectively
… of phase-oriented treatments for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms. Through conducting a systematic search of the literature and identifying suitable papers, which met pre-defined criteria, a meta-analysis was conducted to examine the effect size of phase-oriented treatment …
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Emergency Department Nursing Psychological Care (Early Crisis Intervention) for Adult Victims of Violent Crime: A Quantitative Study
… interventions and the importance of addressing psychological trauma for the victim of violence is of utmost importance for quality of life and the victim’s future. The serious impact of psychological trauma on victims of violent crime supports further study to determine whether Emergency …
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CAPTIVITY AND CONVERSION: AN IN-DEPTH STUDY OF SOVIET POWS IN AFGHANISTAN
… the historical treatment of Soviet POWs and psychological trauma. The historical Soviet treatment of POWs played an influential role in the defectors’ decisions and why many were afraid to return to their homeland years after the conflict had ended. Psychological trauma resulting from …
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An IPA investigation into the experience of a hypnobirthing birth
… challenges to birthing people. The prevalence of psychological trauma due to birth has been reported to occur in 7% of the birthing population, with up to 48% of those who have birthed reportedly finding birth as traumatic. The hypnobirthing method is gaining significant popularity and aims to …
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From family damage to family challenge : stories of rebuilding lives after war and refugee trauma : Australia after the Balkans conflicts
… study was to explore the effect of war-related psychological trauma on refugees from the former Yugoslavia who came to Australia in the last 20 years, and to examine how their process of recovery from trauma was assisted by the power of healing relationships, family strength and resilience. The …
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"It was the bruise of the war": The Effects of Injury and Trauma on the Construction of Masculinity in Hemingway and Lawrence
… emerge in the wake of a physical injury or a psychological trauma. For Lawrence, masculinity was attained when a man embraced his impulse or inner essence, what scholar Peter Balbert outlines as the “phallic imagination,” while turning away from the control and mastery of the will. This choice …
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Madness in Medieval Art and Romance
… The onset of madness reflects a moment of psychological trauma, and recovery of sanity portrays symbolically the hero's moral recalibration.
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Traumatic Formations and Psychiatric Codifications: A Rhetorical History of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
… Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1980, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has become a medical and cultural phenomenon. Moreover, it has led to the belief that PTSD is a universal aspect of human experience. Traumatic Formations and Psychiatric Codifications: A Rhetorical History of …
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Posttraumatic Substance Use Disorders (PTSUD): Perceived Causal Relations between Trauma-Related Symptoms and Substance Use Disorders
Substance use disorders (SUD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are frequently comorbid in those who have experienced psychological trauma, although little research has investigated the cause and effect relationships between the two. This thesis examined the co-occurrence of trauma-related …
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Memory and Destruction: A Psychiatric Approach to Understanding Literary Depictions of Air Raids in World War II
… texts, exploring both German guilt and psychological trauma. This dissertation offers new insight into an important period of German history and literature, and provides new pathways for exploring war and trauma literature in general.
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Through the Devil's Mirror: The Villain and the Sinthomosexual as Manifestations of the Death Drive
… of Lewis’s narrative for its depiction of psychological trauma rooted in sexual expression suggests that this queer negativity is not the sum total of the queer experience within the eighteenth century nor contemporary society. With the aid of a selection of prominent queer theorists and …
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