Questions tagged [trauma]
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When and how did the concept of psychological trauma begin to be extended and expanded to include more mundane and less severe experiences?
I'm in my first semester studying mental health counseling at a master's level and I have heard several of my professors make comments to the effect that over the past 20-30 years they have seen the ...
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Is there a neurological difference between someone experiencing a "normal" trauma response, and someone with PTSD? Or are they on the same continuum?
I've been reading Dr. Bessel van der Kolk's book The Body Keeps the Score. Dr. Van der Kolk describes how, in people with PTSD, the brain actually undergoes changes in response to trauma. Their ...
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Why did humans evolve to be traumatizable?
Why did humans evolve to be traumatizable, instead of being more resilient and treating trauma in a detached manner? Don't symptoms of trauma reduce a person's biological fitness? Is PTSD an ...
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Resources for adults supporting a partner with childhood sexual trauma
This may be not the appropriate community, but I am looking for resources - books or articles - about how to improve the affective support towards an adult who suffered childhood sexual abuse.
I am ...
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What feelings do women and girls have when seeing genocide of her race?
In my collage , I need to submit an article on Genocides in Ancient World
I collected many details and show to my guide
But he requested me to add about the psychological feelings does a female ...
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Detecting trauma with EEG?
My parent went to a Psychologist because of anxiety and panic attacks. Nicely i knew that she uses EEG for diagnostics. So he went to see her, but he told me that during the EEG she asked him for 2 ...
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Psychological effects of statutory rape - differences by gender?
Occasionally, criminal cases where female teachers have sex with male students make the news. I have the impression that many people are much less critical of that than when the victim is female, and ...
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