
Trauma - American Psychological Association (APA)
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 …
APA Dictionary of Psychology
Apr 19, 2018 · Traumatic events include those caused by human behavior (e.g., rape, war, industrial accidents) as well as by nature (e.g., earthquakes) and often challenge an …
APA Dictionary of Psychology
Nov 15, 2023 · the transmission of trauma or its legacy, in the form of a psychological consequence of an injury or attack, poverty, and so forth, from the generation experiencing the …
What is trauma? A critique and definition. - APA PsycNet
The term “trauma” is ambiguous, even in formal academic literature. In this article, I will argue for a more precise definition of psychological trauma that I believe will aid researchers in …
The exclusion of psychological forms of trauma from the definition of trauma arguably brings forward the concern that people who have experienced psychological trauma in the absence …
Defining trauma. - APA PsycNet
Whether the objective is to learn about psychological trauma, to empirically investigate trauma-related phenomena, or to treat the consequences of encountering a traumatic event (TE), it is …
Students Exposed to Trauma
A traumatic event is a frightening, dangerous, or violent event that poses bodily or psychological harm or is a threat to a student’s life or a loved one. Students may or may not experience a …
This definition is intended to be broad and include not only the life-threatening or physically injurious events described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5th …
Posttraumatic stress disorder
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may develop in some people after extremely traumatic events, such as combat, a terrorist attack, crime, an accident, or a natural disaster.
As can be seen in Volume 1, Chapter 4 of this hand-book, traumatic events are extremely pervasive in the general population; during most of the middle decades of the last century, …