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

After trauma, some people develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a mental health condition that can involve intrusive nightmares, flashbacks and physical reactions when reminded of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The experiences of incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II have much to teach about intergenerational trauma and ...

Nationally, about 3 in 4 students have experienced one or more adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), which can include abuse, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In trauma psychology, “being triggered” means that something has activated a person’s post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. This could include emotions, physical symptoms, or flashbacks.

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 ...