The impact of twenty childhood and adult traumatic stressors on the risk of psychiatric disorder

Wheaton, Blair; Roszell, Patricia; Hall, Kimberlee A.

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“…The stress process model has been used to explain mental health outcomes in a wide range of social contexts and circumstances, including stressors accruing within family (Aneshensel et al 1995;Brody et al 1989) and the workplace (Hamilton et al 1990;Schieman, Whitestone, and Van Gundy 2006); as a consequence of discrimination, stigma (Broman 2000;Jackson, Williams, and Torres 1997;Meyer 1995), and low socioeconomic status (Lantz et al 2005;Turner and Lloyd 1999); and through life events, including traumatic events in childhood (Kessler et al 1997;Wheaton, Roszell, and Hall 1997), marriage and divorce (Pearlin and Johnson 1977;Wertlieb 1996), and the loss of loved ones (Pearlin and LeBlanc 2002). Yet, despite the breadth of this literature, left unexamined is an increasingly complex dimension of modern social life: sexuality.…”

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Health and Sexual Status in an Urban Gay Enclave: An Application of the Stress Process Model

Green

2008

J Health Soc Behav

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In this article, I apply the stress process model as a framework to understand sexual sociality and its impact on health among urban gay men in a large North American gay enclave. Data consisting of in-depth interviews with 70 gay men coupled with three years of fieldwork demonstrate a sexual status order that privileges caucasian, middle-class men in their twenties and early thirties, and that disadvantages black and Asian men, men over 40 years of age, and poor men. Men with low sexual status faced significant stressors in the form of avoidance from others, stigmatization, and rejection. These stressors, in turn, taxed personal resources, including self-esteem, sense of social support, and sense of control, and they also negatively affected emotional states in the form of depression and anxiety. Finally, some low status men were unable to consistently negotiate condom use as a consequence of a history of field stressors and diminished personal resources. The results suggest that more work on sexual status structures and their connection to health is needed, both within gay enclaves and across a broader spectrum of sexual subcultures.

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Health and Sexual Status in an Urban Gay Enclave: An Application of the Stress Process Model

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2008

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“…Several large epidemiological, community-based studies have confirmed the greater incidence of psychopathology in adults with early parental loss in the general population (Kendler et al, 2002;Wheaton, Roszell, & Hall, 1997;Tweed, Schoenbach, George, & Blazer, 1989). In attempting to understand studies that document an increase in adult psychopathology over the normal population (as much as a fourfold increase in psychiatric diagnosis: Wheaton et al, 1997), as well as to understand those that do not show such an increase in psychopathology following early loss, it becomes important to consider possible neurobiological models of the processing of early trauma and loss, as well as to consider mediating environmental factors.…”

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“…In attempting to understand studies that document an increase in adult psychopathology over the normal population (as much as a fourfold increase in psychiatric diagnosis: Wheaton et al, 1997), as well as to understand those that do not show such an increase in psychopathology following early loss, it becomes important to consider possible neurobiological models of the processing of early trauma and loss, as well as to consider mediating environmental factors.…”

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Dyadic Trauma in Infancy and Early Childhood: Review of the Literature

Markese¹

2011

Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy

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The clinical and empirical literature on trauma and loss in infancy and early childhood largely focuses on children's exposure to traumatic events, direct "event trauma." This article seeks to expand the definition of trauma in infancy to include "indirect trauma," implicit emotional and relational events, such as infant exposure to traumatized parents, which occurred in the Project for Mothers, Infants, and Young Children of September 11, 2001, described in this issue. Four empirical literatures are reviewed to develop an understanding of the cognitive, behavioral, and social sequelae of early trauma and parental loss: (1) research on childhood trauma symptoms in the verbal period; (2) research on child and parent attachment security and the parent-child relationship; (3) research on the preverbal period of infant development, specifically addressing nonverbal parent-child communication patterns; and (4) research on the impact of maternal trauma prenatally, on the infant's capacity to remember and represent trauma occurring preverbally, and on the effect of early trauma on neurological development. The article argues that trauma and treatment in infancy and early childhood should be construed as dyadic, occurring between parent and child.In response to traumatic events of the last decade, researchers and clinicians have struggled to define and treat exposure to trauma and loss in early childhood (

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“…The complete list was compiled based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 1994), and on the work of Turner and Lloyd (1995) and Wheaton, Roszell, and Hall (1997). Germane to the present study are two items on family bereavement: death of a child and the unexpected death of a spouse.…”

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How Religious Doubt Moderates Depression Symptoms Following Older Adult Bereavement

Hayward

Krause

2013

Death Studies

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This study examined the relationship of religious doubt with mental health following bereavement, using data from a nationally representative longitudinal survey of religion and health in older adulthood. Growth curve modeling analyzed trajectories of change in symptoms of depression at up to three waves over up to seven years following either family bereavement or non-bereavement trauma. After bereavement, those with more religious doubt reported worsening symptoms, whereas those with less doubt reported stable or improving symptoms over the same period. After nonbereavement trauma, religious doubt was not associated with symptom change.

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The impact of twenty childhood and adult traumatic stressors on the risk of psychiatric disorder

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Health and Sexual Status in an Urban Gay Enclave: An Application of the Stress Process Model

Health and Sexual Status in an Urban Gay Enclave: An Application of the Stress Process Model

Dyadic Trauma in Infancy and Early Childhood: Review of the Literature

How Religious Doubt Moderates Depression Symptoms Following Older Adult Bereavement

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