Current literature suggests that by using trauma- informed practices (TIP) in our schools and classrooms, positive short long-term outcomes can be achieved for both children their communities. However, there is little research identifying what helps or hinders the implementation of trauma-informed practice development a practitioner’s pedagogy. As part this narrative review, 25 variables were i...

Trauma is a foremost theme of contemporary literature. The term “post-traumatic stress disorder” (PTSD) found its existence in the 1980s, exploring shattering effects trauma on victim. Traumatic mutism one such psychological disorder characterised by victim’s sudden inability to speak, following trauma. protagonist Maya I Know Why Caged Bird Sings, subjected horror incest at age seven. Overwhel...

Trauma-informed care (TIC) psychoeducational group-based interventions for foster carers and adoptive parents are growing, but evidence about their effects have not been integrated. A narrative review was undertaken of studies that evaluated the these interventions. It found they appear to increase carers’ capacity provide children with TIC reduce child trauma-related difficulties. Three core c...

This research article explores the politics of cultural assimilation in Mira Jacob’s novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing (2013). aim is also discuss intersection memory, trauma, and mourning concerning immigrant experience. In terms assimilation, Barkan's six-stage model critiqued, diasporic ‘hybridity’ proposed as an alternative notion total assimilation. analysis traumatic experience, pa...

Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow (1991) gave rise to much controversy when it came out, for this novella revolves around a traumatised Nazi doctor exiled in the US whose life is narrated disorienting reverse chronology by what would seem be his own dissociated conscience. Despite abundant academic publications on experimental narrative, such as those that read posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) pie...

Transactional analysis (TA) is a theory of personality that can be applied in virtually all fields of psychology: educational, counseling, organizational and psychotherapy. The atmosphere that supports transactional analysis is one of comfort, security and respect. A positive relationship is forged between the clinician and the client in order to provide a model for subsequent relationships tha...

American Indians must negotiate the cultural and psychological legacy of colonialism as they construct coherent, purposive individual and communal narratives. Analysis of the life stories of highly generative members of these groups who have emerged as leaders offers important insights for psychological adaptation in the context of the historical legacy of colonialism. Based on an interpretive ...

Abstract Background People suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) seem to have incoherent autobiographical narratives. Tentative evidence suggests that reduced narrative coherence of memories is associated with insecure attachment. However, it remains unknown whether narratives in people BPD are coupled experiences childhood trauma, which highly prevalent BPD. Method We examined i...

This systematic clinical case study describes the psychological assessment and treatment with cognitive therapy of Zanele, a Xhosa-speaking adolescent rape survivor with major depressive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A case narrative was developed to document the main features of the therapy process and progress was monitored using scales measuring symptoms of depression an...

INTRODUCTION Administration of high ratios of plasma to packed red blood cells is a routine practice for in-hospital trauma resuscitation. Military and civilian emergency teams are increasingly carrying prehospital blood products (PHBP) for trauma resuscitation. This study systematically reviewed the clinical literature to determine the extent to which the available evidence supports this pract...