The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in children, addition to the classic symptoms of intrusiveness, avoidance and hyperactivation, can present itself a more characteristic way on basis developmental stage child. nature severity experienced event, proximity trauma, time individual perception also affect its incidence. Failure diagnose trauma correctly lead chronic facilitate emergence Complex PTS...

Background: Chronic diseases affect the lives of the patient and caregiver. Caring for a patient with a chronic psychiatric illness, such as bipolar disorder, is a stressful and challenging activity. Caregivers of severe psychiatric patients are the primary victims of violence by patients. Caring for these patients can be very stressful for the caregiver to the extent of experiencing post-traum...

Background: Violence or sexual harassment have been increasingly reported in recent years, especially among women. Not only at the global level, but also nationally and locally. form of rape can cause deep trauma to victim, depression, other mental disorders. Methods: A case study that causes post-traumatic stress disorder. Results discussion: an 18-year-old woman, still high school, complained...

To date, no studies have investigated factors associated with Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) in children and adolescents. Relationships between ASD and a number of demographic, trauma, cognitive, and trauma memory variables were therefore investigated in a sample (N = 93) of children and adolescents involved in assaults and motor vehicle accidents. Several cognitive variables and the quality of tr...

Susan, was referred to me by her primary care physician for counseling 30 years after her husband was killed instantaneously in an auto accident. The event was frozen in her mind as if it had just occurred. Susan was experiencing anxiety while driving, which was manifested by gripping the steering wheel so tightly her hand and shoulder muscles hurt, panic attacks, visual images of auto accident...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Post-traumatic stress disorder is a common psychological maladaptation among adolescents after undergoing an earthquake. Knowledge about the prevalence and maintenance of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and the changes of its predictors over time can help medical providers assist adolescent survivors with mitigating long-term impacts. This study examined the change...

We report findings from a Web-based survey of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies' members (n = 227) regarding use of trauma exposure and posttraumatic assessment instruments. Across clinical and research settings, the most widely used tests included the Posttraumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale, Trauma Symptom Inventory, Life Events Checklist, Clinician-Administered Post-traumat...