Trauma exposure is a global public health concern, with lifelong psychological, social, behavioural, and physical detriments. There growing need for trauma-informed interventions, Sport Development (SfD) programmes identified as one set of promising interventions. This narrative inquiry explores the lives soccer players taking part in two SfD (e.g., Street Soccer Scotland, USA) that serve popul...

We describe the N2 (Narrative Networks) Corpus, a new language resource. The corpus is unique in three important ways. First, every text in the corpus is a story, which is in contrast to other language resources that may contain stories or story-like texts, but are not specifically curated to contain only stories. Second, the unifying theme of the corpus is material relevant to Islamist Extremi...

For centuries, medicine and psychiatry mirrored society's equivocations regarding childhood trauma. Those conflicts have mostly resolved, with widespread agreement that children are commonly exposed to traumatic events that may lead to PTSD and other mental conditions. The psychiatric and legal arguments should no longer be about the reality of childhood trauma in general; instead, experts shou...

Betrayal trauma theory (BTT) predicts that unawareness of abuse by someone on whom a victim is dependent may serve to protect a necessary relationship. Lindblom and Gray (2009) contribute to a growing line of BTT studies by measuring narrative detail in a sample of undergraduates who met Criterion A of the PTSD diagnosis and who rated the abuse as their most distressing trauma. Although many co...

In this essay, I explore the techniques by which Burns uses and explodes myth of unspeakable through deployment a picaresque mode that enables an ethical trauma narrative. demonstrate how Burns’ work refutes ‘event-based’ reading discuss narrative Milkman enacts difficulty finding vocabulary with to make traumatic experience intelligible. suggest novel refusal suspicious insisting on authority ...