It is also provided to the general clinical community, free of charge, on the JohnBriere.com website. 2 Chapter 1 Introduction This guide has been developed to assist clinicians in the evaluation and treatment of adolescents who have experienced multiple forms of psychological trauma, typically in the context of negative living conditions such as poverty, deprivation, and social discrimination....

BACKGROUND In our experience, secondary enuresis nocturna is a common complaint among children after a motor vehicle accident. However, as these children are often brought for examination as part of an insurance compensation claim, this complaint is not always reliable. OBJECTIVE To describe a series of children in whom secondary enuresis occurred after a motor vehicle accident. METHODS AND...

OBJECTIVE Increased neuroplasticity and neural development during puberty provide a context for which stress and trauma can have dramatic and long-lasting effects on psychological systems; therefore, this study was designed to determine whether exposure to potentially traumatic events during puberty uniquely predicts adolescent girls' psychopathology. Because neural substrates associated with d...

This article offers a comprehensive perspective on how Western psychological theory and practice, specifically developments in somatic psychology, can be integrated with the scientific insights of Yoga in order to produce a more thorough model that seeks to reduce the symptoms of psychological trauma and promote overall well-being. Toward this goal, the article offers a literature review that i...

BACKGROUND Up to 34% of new mothers have reported experiencing a traumatic childbirth. Documented risk factors for delayed or failed lactogenesis include stressful labor and delivery, unscheduled cesarean births, and psychosocial stress and pain related to childbirth. OBJECTIVE To explore the impact of birth trauma on mothers' breast-feeding experiences. METHODS Phenomenology was the qualit...

• Birth trauma remains an underpublicized and, therefore, an undertreated problem. There is a need for further documentation and especially more studies directed toward prevention. In the meantime, manual treatment of birth trauma injuries to the neuromusculoskeletal system could be beneficial to many patients not now receiving such treatment, and it is well within the means of current practice...

Based on the perception that episiotomy prevents obstetric trauma, the procedure is liberally performed in U.S. Hospitals. Using linked Nevada Birth Registry and Nevada Impatient Hospital Discharges (2000 to 2005), we applied descriptive analyses and logistic regression to examine the status of Nevada episiotomy practice and its impact on birth trauma for mothers. Of 106,461 vaginal live births...