Experiencing trauma leads to intrusive memories (IMs), a hallmark symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which also occurs transdiagnostically. Understanding why IMs increase or decrease is ...

The term is everywhere, but what does it mean? Six guiding principles can help organisations provide care without causing ...

Trauma-informed care is in the details. It assumes people are people. And people experience trauma. Trauma informed care or TIC assumes that every person may have a history of trauma, so steps are ...

A parents’ divorce or witnessing a violent crime are just two examples of trauma that Indiana children might be experiencing. Decades of research tells us that trauma experienced by kids and teens can ...

Childhood trauma is a concept that has traditionally been understood in the context of the abuse and neglect perpetrated by primary caregivers. However, this narrow definition, in my personal and ...

In my last post, I shared six reasons why many people struggle to see themselves in the historically understood definition of “childhood trauma.” Those reasons boiled down to the limitations of ...

Psychological trauma is a response to an event that a person finds highly stressful. Examples include being in a war zone, a natural disaster, or an accident. Trauma can cause a wide range of physical ...

Over 40 years ago, post-traumatic stress disorder was recognized as a formal psychiatric diagnosis by the American Psychiatric Association and was defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...

One of the largest research analyses regarding the frequency of childhood trauma and its effects in adults is the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE). 14 The ACE study was led by Kaiser Permanente (KP ...

Trauma dumping, the act of sharing deeply personal and emotional experiences in a public, unfiltered manner, has become increasingly popular on TikTok. While it offers some users a sense of catharsis, ...

Trauma surrounds us. Perhaps you recall the abduction in April 2014 of 276 schoolgirls from a government secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria. Or Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children. Or the ...