Introduction The nature of military employment is such that Service personnel may be exposed to traumatic experiences of such intensity as to make the development of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) a strong possibility (1,2). This paper explores the effect that factors such as psychiatric labelling and stigma have upon Service personnel requiring post trauma mental health support. The art...

This study investigated the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Revised (MMPI-2; Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989) and the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1991) with regard to each instrument's utility for discriminating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from depression and social phobia in a sample of college students with mixed civilian trauma ex...

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Trauma theory is an emerging field that interdisciplinary and incorporates both psychological physiological studies related to trauma. The main focus of trauma the exploration workings effects post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Embedded in theory, this research aims at carrying out a qualitative analysis order explore recovery from traumatic experience. study shall deal with analyzing Conra...

AIM To investigate the impact of regular exposure to paediatric medical trauma on multidisciplinary teams in a paediatric hospital and the relationships between psychological distress, resilience and coping skills. METHOD Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, secondary traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, stress, burnout, compassion satisfaction, resilience and coping skills were meas...

Dear Editor, Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can arise after exposure to a terrifying event/ordeal in which severe physical harm occurred or was about to happen. PTSD symptoms include persistent re-experience of the trauma, avo idance o f t rauma-assoc ia ted s t imul i , and hyperarousal. In the present report, we describe a woman with PTSD whose symptoms were...