Post-Traumatic Development and Shakes in Basic Beliefs During Social Trauma

Understanding Post - trauma Cognitions and Beliefs

[Post-traumatic amnesia and post-trauma quality of life].

The present study aims to compare quality of life of victims with long and short term post-traumatic amnesia and to analyze the relation between quality of life and length of amnesia, including or not the comatose period. This prospective cohort study, gathered data during the hospital stay and 3 and 6 months post- trauma. Blunt traumatic brain injury patients, over 14 years old, with no prior ...

Fear avoidance and illness beliefs in post-traumatic neck pain.

STUDY DESIGN A descriptive overview of the relevant literature and the introduction of a new psychological model. OBJECTIVE The fear-avoidance (FA) model and the potential importance of illness beliefs in post-traumatic neck pain are discussed. The causal beliefs-anxiety model is introduced as an adaptation of the FA model, emphasizing the critical role of illness beliefs. SUMMARY OF BACKGR...

Trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents

Many children and adolescents are exposed to different types of trauma, e.g. abuse or various disasters. Trauma can cause severe and long-term impairment and consequences, the most studied of which are post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and PTSD symptoms (PTSS). PTSD is highly prevalent in clinical practice (about 7%) and is a debilitating consequence of trauma. Of those children and adolesc...

Challenges in treating post-traumatic stress disorder and attachment trauma.

Treating women suffering from trauma poses significant challenges. The diagnostic prototype of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is based on single-event trauma, such as sexual assault in adulthood. Several effective cognitive- behavioral treatments for such traumas have been developed, although many treated patients continue to experience residual symptoms. Even more problematic is the com...