Psychological Trauma From Victims' Viewpoints

Mental Findings in Trauma Victims.

INTRODUCTION In medico-legal evaluation of trauma patients, the bio-psychological effects of the trauma and the severity of the injuries require to be evaluated. In this study, assuming the fact that psychiatric assessment is not taken into consideration in physical trauma cases, we planned to show the presence of psychological trauma in our medico-legally evaluated patients who presented with ...

Treatment of victims of trauma

The psychiatric sequelae of trauma have been most often discussed in relation to disasters, both natural and man-made, and military conflict. This may sometimes lead psychiatrists to think of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other posttraumatic mental illnesses as being somewhat exotic and unusual in general psychiatric practice. In this paper, I propose that PTSD and related disorders ...

[The role of psychological debriefing in the treatment of victims of trauma].

The application of psychological debriefing has become an expected and widespread intervention following exposure to trauma. This article assesses the wisdom of such an approach and reports upon expert consensus regarding its use. Meta-analytic and narrative reviews are summarised and areas of agreement and disagreement are outlined. In sum, it was concluded that the majority of people do not b...

Psychological trauma of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome victims and bereaved families

Alcohol and brief intervention for trauma victims.

OBJECTIVE to describe the causes and severities of trauma in patients who met the criteria for alcohol abuse or dependence according to Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview, and to display the pattern of alcohol consumption and subsequent changes one year after trauma. METHODS a transversal and longitudinal quantitative study carried out between November 2012 and September 2013 in th...