BACKGROUND Narrative therapies, especially narrative exposure therapy, are used to treat the effects of trauma in refugees and to prevent psychiatric illness. These methods involve helping the person to tell the story of what happened to them until it no longer elicits anxiety. METHODS We reviewed all quantitative studies related to narrative exposure methods for treating trauma or posttrauma...

Children with autism exhibit a deficit in the comprehension and creation of narrative which impacts their social world. Our ongoing research agenda is to find ways of developing interactive learning environments which enhance the ability of individual children with autism to deal with narrative and thus the social world. The study reported here involved 12 children in a longitudinal study which...

The theory of trauma has been one the current approaches in scientific discourse since 90s 20th century, foundation for its study was laid American humanities and social sciences, which later became subject by researchers various fields profiles. Rising tide interest towards collective or traumatic memory conditioned wars difficult post-conflict psychological status people, who had to deal with...

Trauma experiences or post-traumatic disorders prove to be an uprising phenomenon faced by people around the globe. This paper examines language of trauma studies in two textbooks authored a prominent analysis expert who has been field for more than 20 years. posits that study content narratives discourse could contribute self-efficacy beliefs especially communication management. Using corpus-b...

In this essay, I explore the cinematic adaptation and representation of trauma, while further consider role significance notion origin in both trauma adaptation. Through an initial consideration relationship between theory impossible origin, particularly as it is articulated by Walter Benjamin, essay goes on to analyze elemental form To end, considers movement from autobiographical memoir a fea...

Participants with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and participants with a trauma but without PTSD wrote narratives of their trauma and, for comparison, of the most-important and the happiest events that occurred within a year of their trauma. They then rated these three events on coherence. Based on participants' self-ratings and on naïve-observer scorings of the participants' narratives, ...

Growing evidence supports the effectiveness of Trauma and Grief Component Therapy for Adolescents (TGCT-A) in reducing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and maladaptive grief (MG) reactions. This pilot study explored whether the specific focus of students' narratives (i.e., focus on trauma vs. focus on loss) as shared by TGCT-A group members would predict initial pretreatment levels...

Background: Depression among those who have experienced childhood abuse is associated with earlier onset, more persistent and severe symptoms, more frequent relapse, and poorer treatment outcomes across a variety of psychiatric disorders. In addition, individuals with a history of childhood abuse are more likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) co-occurring with depression. Obje...

A case of secondary diurnal enuresis (SDE) after a car accident was treated with hypnosis by means of the Hypnotic Trauma Narrative, an instrument created by the authors for use with children who have been exposed to traumatic events and develop either classic symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder or manifest other psychosomatic symptoms. An ABAB time-series design with multiple replication...

We investigated hypotheses derived from the dual representation theory of posttraumatic stress disorder, which proposes that flashbacks and ordinary memories of trauma are supported by different types of representation. Sixty-two participants meeting diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder completed a detailed written trauma narrative, and afterwards identified those sections in t...