psychological trauma
Sign in to saveAlso known as trauma, psychic trauma, emotional scar, mental injury
type of damage to the psyche that occurs as a result of a severely distressing event
Psychological trauma is damage to your mental and emotional wellbeing that results from experiencing or witnessing a severely distressing event. It matters because traumatic experiences can have lasting effects on how people think, feel, and function in their daily lives.
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Research
32,549 papers- Psychological Trauma and the Trauma Surgeon.ReviewThe Psychiatric quarterly · 2022Flannery RBDOI: 10.1007/s11126-020-09862-y
- Childbirth-Related Psychological Trauma.ReviewPrilozi (Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite. Oddelenie za medicinski nauki) · 2022Pop-Jordanova NDOI: 10.2478/prilozi-2022-0002
- Psychological Trauma in the Context of Familial Relationships: A Concept Analysis.ReviewTrauma, violence & abuse · 2019Isobel S, Goodyear M, Foster KDOI: 10.1177/1524838017726424
- Psychological trauma as a transdiagnostic risk factor for mental disorder: an umbrella meta-analysis.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2023Hogg B, Gardoki-Souto I, Valiente-Gómez A et al.DOI: 10.1007/s00406-022-01495-5
- Treating psychological trauma: Special populations, symptoms, and innovative models of care.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2024Kendall-Tackett KDOI: 10.1037/tra0001847
- [Psychological trauma of the adolescent].ReviewRevue de l'infirmiere · 2020Soulan X, Lavandier A, Joboory SA et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.revinf.2020.01.010
- [The psychological trauma of the child].ReviewRevue de l'infirmiere · 2019Soulan X, Lavandier A, Al Joboory S et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.revinf.2019.10.012
- Review of psychological trauma: theory, practice, policy and research.ReviewRivista di psichiatria · 2021Tahan M, Taheri H, Saleem TDOI: 10.1708/3594.35764
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Encyclopedic overview
Psychological trauma (also known as mental trauma, psychiatric trauma, emotional damage, or psychotrauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events, such as bodily injury, sexual violence, or other threats to the life of the subject or their loved ones; indirect exposure, such as from watching television news, may be extremely distressing and can produce an involuntary and possibly overwhelming physiological stress response, but does not always produce trauma per se. Examples of distressing events include violence, rape, or a terrorist attack.
Short-term reactions such as psychological shock and psychological denial typically follow. Long-term reactions and effects include flashbacks, panic attacks, insomnia, nightmare disorder, difficulties with interpersonal relationships, emotional dysregulation, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and brief psychotic disorder. Physical symptoms including migraines, hyperventilation, hyperhidrosis, and nausea are often associated with or made worse by trauma.
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