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Psychological trauma (also known as mental trauma, psychiatric trauma, emotional damage, or psychotrauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events, such as bodily injury, sexual violence, or other threats to the life of the subject or their loved ones; indirect exposure, such as from watching television news, may be extremely distressing and can produce an involuntary and ...
Trauma Systems Therapy (TST) is a mental health treatment model for children and adolescents who have been exposed to trauma, defined as experiencing, witnessing, or confronting "an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others". [1]
Many different kinds of therapy can be considered trauma therapy, and what works best varies from person to person.
Identified patient (IP) is a clinical term often used in family therapy discussion. It describes one family member in a dysfunctional family who is used as an expression of the family's authentic inner conflicts. As a family system is dynamic, the overt symptoms of an identified patient draw attention away from the "elephants in the living room ...
Childhood trauma can impact a person's self-esteem, and may create a strong desire for validation and approval from others. “There is lack of sense of self in there. The missing ingredient is ...
In addition to helping with emotional regulation, somatic therapy can also reduce trauma-related pain, disability, insomnia, and other manifestations of stress. [90] Some common somatic therapy techniques are: [medical citation needed] Body awareness: Learning to notice and identify feelings of tension and calmness in the body.
If a person experienced trauma, due to the HPA axis being sensitized the HPA axis stays activated and the stress response can become chronic. [ 7 ] The constant release of the stress hormones can lead to physiological problems, like heart damage, diabetes and digestive issues through the excessive release of epinephrine and cortisol.
A trauma trigger is a psychological stimulus that prompts involuntary recall of a previous traumatic experience.The stimulus itself need not be frightening or traumatic and may be only indirectly or superficially reminiscent of an earlier traumatic incident, such as a scent or a piece of clothing. [1]