BACKGROUND There is a great deal of medical literature suggesting that substance use disorder is a serious clinical concern, affecting general population and associated with considerable economic, societal, and personal costs. OBJECTIVES This study sought to clarify the relationship between early trauma, dissociative experience, and suicide ideation as predictive factors of active and passive...

The current diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia proposes that a genetic deficit creates a predisposing vulnerability in the form of oversenstivity to stress. This model positions all psychosocial events on the stress side of the diathesis-stress equation. As an example of hypotheses that emerge when consideration is given to repositioning adverse life events as potential contributors to the...

Vivid representations are often made by traumatic events with intense emotions. The emotions may be activated automatically from memory on the mere exposure of an affect-loaded stimulus. The aims of this study were to investigate the implicit emotional processing of traumatic events and the moderation of priming by semantic level of the events, using primed naming task at short stimulus onset a...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of lifetime exposure to traumatic events and its relation to PTSD symptoms. METHODS Participants were randomly selected from several schools located in the city of Kuching. There were 85 adolescents participating in this study, with ages ranging from 13 to 14 years old, of whom 31% (n=26) were males and 69% (n=59) females. T...

OBJECTIVE In a large sample of community-dwelling older adults with histories of exposure to a broad range of traumatic events, we examined the extent to which appraisals of traumatic events mediate the relations between insecure attachment styles and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity. METHOD Participants completed an assessment of adult attachment, in addition to measures...

The effects of social support and traumatic experiences on mental health in conflict situations may be different by gender. The Kosovo Emergency Department Study was conducted in July and August 2001 to assess mental health 2 years after the end of the war in Kosovo. Of 306 emergency department patients (87.7% response rate), all were ethnic Albanian, 97.4% had experienced traumatic events, and...

BACKGROUND In China, a growing number of adolescents have experienced traumatic events that have resulted in PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Post-traumatic symptoms are common psychological problems in adolescents who have experienced traumatic events. However, existing studies tend to focus on the factors influencing PTSD, such as the response styles and social support, and studies on t...

Policing necessitates exposure to traumatic, violent and horrific events, which can lead to an increased risk for developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The purpose of this study was to determine whether the frequency, recency, and type of police-specific traumatic events were associated with PTSD symptoms. Participants were 359 police officers from the Buffalo Cardio-Metabolic Occup...

Abramson, D., Redlener, I., Stehling-Ariza, T., & Fuller, E. (2007). The legacy of Katrina’s children: Estimating the numbers of at-risk children in the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana and Mississippi. (National Center for Disaster Preparedness, research brief 2007:12). New York: Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. This research brief from the National Center for Disaster Prepar...