Occupational therapists commonly work with children with autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, and other developmental disorders. Although many of these children have difficulties with sensory integration, they also may have trauma or attachment disorders that may or may not be formally identified. Early childhood trauma includes early loss or lack of cons...

Rational emotive behaviour therapists view stress-related disorders as originating in irrational beliefs (iB’s), phirosophies and anitudes, as opposed to the stressor. People who suffer from stress d@erfrom people who suffer from emotional or neurotic problems mainly an that the stressed people have iB’s about specific, short-term or more readdy identifiable events, as opposed w the more mundan...

INTRODUCTION Distinctions between rural and urban environments produce different frequencies of traumatic exposures and psychiatric disorders. We examine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and frequency of trauma exposures by position on the rural-urban continuum. METHODS The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) was used to evaluate psychiatric disorders among a nationally-rep...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that can occur after witnessing or experiencing life-threatening or otherwise deeply disturbing events, such as serious injuries or sexual violence. For a long time, PTSD has been classified as an anxiety disorder; other feelings such as guilt have not been in focus. In the DSM-V (American Psychiatric Association 2013), the placeme...

Sensitization of stress-responsive neurobiological systems as a possible consequence of early adverse experience has been implicated in the pathophysiology of mood and anxiety disorders. In addition to early adversities, adulthood stressors are also known to precipitate the manifestation of these disorders. The present study sought to evaluate the relative role of early adverse experience vs. s...