OBJECTIVE To assess the association between early posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depressive symptoms and functional and quality-of-life outcomes among injured youth. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Combined pediatric-adult level I trauma center. PARTICIPANTS Randomly sampled adolescent injury survivors aged 12 to 18 years (N = 108) were recruited from surgical inpatient...

The aim of this article is to analyze Angie Cruz’s novel Dominicana from a multicultural and gender perspective focusing on how Cruz introduces the female body as metaphor for immigrant experience lived by Dominican Women during 1960s in United States. Also, paper studies becomes metaphorical border diasporic central character way depict an essentially in-between-space. Thus, rewrites recreates...

Given the patient’s military background and the symptoms of insomnia and nightmares, which are consistent with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this diagnosis should be considered. Further inquiry indicates that this patient returned from deployment in Afghanistan two years earlier. Previous exposure to potentially traumatic events in the military (e.g., combat, witnessing injury or death ...

People have engaged in self-injury-defined as direct and deliberate bodily harm in the absence of suicidal intent-for thousands of years; however, systematic research on this behavior has been lacking. Recent theoretical and empirical work on self-injury has significantly advanced the understanding of this perplexing behavior. Self-injury is most prevalent among adolescents and young adults, ty...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a massive assault to the psyche as well as the body. Within mo­ ments, a person who had been active and inde­ pendent becomes immobilized, loses control of bowel, bladder, sexual and other bodily func­ tions, and is dependent on others to meet the most basic needs. The instantaneous effects of the injury result in total disruption of the victim's life, and the beginn...

There are few reports of severe self-injury to eyes in patients with schizophrenia. We report on a 41-year-old woman, primarily visiting for symptoms of endophthalmitis resulting from self-inflicted needles. Further evaluations established the diagnosis of schizophrenia because of arguing and commenting on auditory hallucinations and negative symptoms including social isolation, decreased self-...

in this article, the compatibility of the opinion on the impossibility of reincarnation and belief in bodily resurrection in transcendental philosophy is studied. to this end, while defining and mentioning different types of reincarnation, some impediments that caused the transcendental philosophers consider reincarnation as impossible are compiled. then it is specified, with regard to the opin...