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Trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, crime, or natural disaster. Reactions such as shock and denial are typical. Longer term reactions include unpredictable emotions, flashbacks, strained relationships, and physical symptoms.
Psychological trauma is a person’s experience of emotional distress resulting from an event that overwhelms the capacity to emotionally digest it.
Trauma refers to your response following an event that psychologically overwhelms you, often resulting in shock, denial, and changes in the body, mind, and...
any disturbing experience that results in significant fear, helplessness, dissociation, confusion, or other disruptive feelings intense enough to have a long-lasting negative effect on a person’s attitudes, behavior, and other aspects of functioning.
Emotional and psychological trauma is the result of extraordinarily stressful events that shatter your sense of security, making you feel helpless in a dangerous world. Psychological trauma can leave you struggling with upsetting emotions, memories, and anxiety that won’t go away.
Psychological or mental health trauma refers to a stressor experienced either directly or indirectly, resulting in significant and severe subjective distress. Mental health trauma is ubiquitous and frequently experienced throughout the lifespan.
Psychological trauma (also known as mental trauma, psychiatric trauma, emotional damage, or psychotrauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events that are outside the normal range of human experiences.
This paper deals with a brief overview of psychological trauma with reference to clinical contexts, neural correlates and the most significant therapeutic approaches.
And yet, ironically, trauma psychology is at the very same time one of the newest fields of study in psychology. This is reflected in the fact that the American Psychological Associa-tion (APA) Division 56 (Trauma Psychology) is the most recently approved division of APA.
What is Trauma? SAMHSA describes individual trauma as an event or circumstance resulting in: physical harm; emotional harm; and/or life-threatening harm; The event or circumstance has lasting adverse effects on the individual's: mental health; physical health; emotional health; social well-being; and/or spiritual well-being