This paper examines exposure to potentially traumatic events from middle childhood through adolescence, and vulnerability to such exposure. Analyses are based on the first 4 annual waves of data from a longitudinal general population study of youth in western North Carolina, involving 4,965 interviews with 1,420 children and adolescents and their parents or guardians. Participants reported on D...

I. Method of obtasning blood. The universal method of obtaining blood from the rat is by snipping off the tip of the tail, preferably with a razor blade. This method gives valid results only under certain circumstances, for by repeated bleeding from the tail, there results, from trauma, a high grade inflammatory reaction with hyperleukocytosis (Klieneberger and Carl281). Repeated withdrawals of...

Background: First responders are a prime example of professionals that are at a high risk of being exposed to traumatic experiences. Reappraisal as a coping strategy might help first responders to better cope with their emotional responses to traumatic events. Objective: This study investigated the effects of repeated sessions of a digital reappraisal training among seven firefighters. The trai...

There are increasing numbers of mothers as well as fathers who engage in long-term migration to support their children and other family members in their home countries. In this article, the current state of the literature about children and adolescents left at home in these transnational families is surveyed and reviewed. The article reviews the effects on children of the process of separation ...

Although the literature on positive adjustment following traumatic events is growing, only a few studies have examined this phenomenon in young refugees. Using the social-ecological framework, the aim of this study was to identify factors and processes that according to young refugees promote their resilience. A total of 16 treatment-seeking refugees aged 13-21 years, living in the Netherlands,...

Although much of this book is devoted to the technical aspects of treatment, we start this chapter with philosophical and, to some extent, theoretical issues associated with trauma therapy. This is because the way in which the clinician views trauma and trauma-related outcomes, and what he or she believes to be the overbridging goals and functions of treatment, have significant effects on the p...

I wish to record very briefly a case of traumatic aneurism of the orbit, treated eventually by ligation of the common carotid, in which the treatment has been partly, but not wholly, successful. James Sparks, set. 10, was looking through a keyhole on the 23rd of May, when a boy at the other side of the door pushed a piece of umbrella-wire through the keyhole into his eye. The wire, probably, wa...

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