The aim of this paper is to provide a review of the emerging literature on the relationship between the experience of difficult childbirth and the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). First, we discuss the criteria for diagnosis of PTSD and the implications that changes in these criteria over the past decade have had for women who experience a traumatic childbirth. Although the...

This conceptual framework for the effects of traumatic experiences addresses what makes an experience traumatic, what psychological responses are expected following such events, and why symptoms persist after the traumatic experience is over. Three elements are considered necessary for an event to be traumatizing: The event must be experienced as extremely negative, uncontrollable, and sudden. ...

To what extent does emotional traumatic context affect sensory processing in the brain? A striking example of emotional impact on sensation is manifested in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), in which a severe emotional trauma produces recurrent and vivid unpleasant sensory recollections. Here we report on an fMRI study exploring the sensory processing of trauma-related pictures in the visua...

life traumatic experiences are major health problems in different communities. early trauma exposures such as physical and sexual abuse, and midlife traumatic events like exposing to disasters are predisposing and precipitating risk factors for many psychiatric disorders, although many people facing to trauma may not show any problematic symptoms and are quite resilient. neuropsychiatric eviden...

As reported in Afifi, Asmundson, Taylor and Jang (2010), lifetime prevalence rates range from 64% to 90% for experiences of trauma and 1.4% to 11.2 % for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although the majority of the population will be affected by trauma at some point in their life, the impact of these experiences will vary depending on the nature of the trauma, person and family characteri...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the experience traumatic events and symptoms post-traumatic stress in men involved amateur sports. participants were aged 20-30 years (n = 60), who have been engaged various types martial arts at level for 5 years, do not sports qualifications. Martial as a sport means combat without use weapons. This dangerous injury, characterized by injuries localizati...

This paper addresses the psychological consequences associated with experiencing traumatic events during warfare. The negative aspect of these experiences is discussed, which should be post-traumatic stress syndrome, but also possibility “moral injury” that may occur as a result transgression ethical and cultural norms. positive presented, connected increased resilience, well experience “post-t...

INTRODUCTION Post-traumatic stress disorder is defined as a mental disorder that arises from the experience of traumatic life events. Research has shown a high incidence of co-morbidity between post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosis. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 32-year-old black African woman with a history of both post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosis. Two years ag...

Objective: Emergency workers, including ambulance personnel, must cope with a variety of duty related stressors including traumatic incident exposures. Little is known about the variables that might be associated with post-traumatic stress symptom in high risk occupational groups such as ambulance personnel. This study investigated the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among Swedish ...