The current issue of International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience is focused on community disasters, the impact of trauma exposure, and crisis intervention. The articles incorporated include studies ranging from the World Trade Center disaster to Hurricane Sandy. These studies are related to public attitudes and beliefs about disease outbreaks, the impact of volunteeris...

The aim of this review is to examine the relationship between trauma, physical health and somatisation. A search was made on the Procite Database at the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences for research articles with the following key words: posttraumatic stress disorder, somatisation, trauma (the Procite Database holds more than 15,000 articles r...

I happened to visit an operating theatre in one of the teaching hospitals in Sri Lanka recently and this was what I observed. A 3-or 4-year old child in a white gown was carried in by two people who were dressed in white clothes and wearing caps and masks. The child looked terrified and was crying. No sooner the child arrived, two ladies in light blue gowns, again with masks and caps, rushed to...

VAWnet is a project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. “Women’s responses to childhood and adulthood sexual violence are complex and highly individualized. Some survivors experience severe and chronic psychological symptoms, whereas others experience little or no distress. The wide range of consequences may be attributed to assault characteristics, environmental conditions, s...

www.thelancet.com/psychiatry Vol 2 May 2015 367 Biomarker-guided treatment stratifi cation algorithms are also needed for patients with established illness. Compared with clinical high-risk populations, individuals with established psychotic disorders are much more readily available to participate in treatment studies; as a result, we have identifi ed medications, social skills, and cognitive t...

The nongovernmental organization, Uyisenga N'Manzi (UNM), provides Rwandan orphans of genocide and HIV/AIDS with education, social, and mental health services. Many orphans in UNM report symptoms of psychological trauma. The primary study objective was to evaluate a multidisciplinary program integrating HIV prevention with an existing package of mental health services. We randomly selected 120 ...

Two studies examined the relation between psychological trauma and schizotypal symptoms. In Study 1, in which 1,510 adults completed telephone interviews, both childhood maltreatment and the experience of an injury or life-threatening event were significantly associated with schizotypal symptoms. In Study 2, in which 303 adults (oversampled for having elevated levels of schizotypal symptoms) co...

Female survivors of sexual trauma are vulnerable to a wide range of psychological consequences (see the VAWnet document entitled The Psychological Consequences of Sexual Trauma). Because some psychological symptoms may be long lasting and severe, treating them at the earliest point in time may reduce the duration and severity of distress. Therefore, this document provides a review and critique ...

Much of today's psychological trauma can be identified as resulting from sudden and seemingly random events, and particularly from events that involve the loss of human life. This article presents a perspective on how behavioral health providers may approach the design, development, and implementation of community-based psychological trauma interventions. These interventions allow those communi...