Trauma: Contemporary Directions in Theory, Practice, and Research

Ringel, Shoshana; Brandell, Jerrold R.

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“…Continually talking about trauma is bad and can negatively affect the health of the victims. *** Trauma concerns the individual impact of intense experiences on the life of an individual-experiences that, by their nature, overwhelm the capacity of the individual to assimilate such experiences when they occur (e.g., Ringel, 2012). This essay does not concern the medical model of trauma known as "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder."…”

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At the End of the Tunnel, We Must See the Light

Zapata-Sepúlveda

2013

Qualitative Inquiry

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This essay represents my process of thinking, rethinking, and assessing trauma and loss from my “I” as a woman who grew up during a dictatorship, as a scholar today in a Chilean public university. Feeling and listening is a form of creating knowledge in the process of studying trauma in Chilean former political prisoners of Pinochet’s regime. I start this essay by thinking about past and static concepts of trauma and loss that were developed in a present and living “thing” that I cannot separate to Memory and Redress. Story telling, dreams, and short stories in a performative text shape this essay to seek shared feelings, experiences, and ideas about trauma and loss, today, and to encourage readers to action. My feelings are identified as part of this “thing” popularly called trauma, which is understood as my own personal construction about some aspects of these events during Pinochet’s regime.

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At the End of the Tunnel, We Must See the Light

Zapata-Sepúlveda

2013

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“…What constitutes a trauma is shaped by the survivor’s subjective experience [ 9 ]. Furthermore, trauma has been described as an indicator of a “plurality of ills” [ 10 ] with political and social dimensions, as traumatic stress is also conceptualized as a reaction to various forms of adversity and structural injustices [ 11 , 12 ]. While this expansion of the definition may be important from a social justice perspective, it poses a challenge in defining a clinical construct [ 10 ].…”

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Still Standing Inside: A Local Idiom Related to Trauma among Namibian Speakers of Khoekhoegowab

Claudius

Shino

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Euro-centric psychiatric conceptualizations often ignore the interplay of local with universal factors in psychological suffering. Emic, locally focused perspectives can enrich etic knowledge to provide culturally sensitive care and to better elucidate the role of culture in mental illness. This study explored the idiom Tsûsa ǃNaeǃkhais xa hâǃnâ/mâǃnâ/ǂgâǃnâhe hâ (a terrible event has entered a person and remains standing inside), which was understood to relate to experiences of trauma and post-traumatic stress, among speakers of Khoekhoegowab, a southern-African click language. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 participants from six urban and rural communities in Namibia. Questions probed perceptions of the idiom in terms of etiology, course, and risk and resilience factors from a socio-ecological framework. Five key themes were identified using thematic analysis: origin in a shocking event; intrusive recurrence of memories, “it keeps on coming back”; the close interplay between mental and physical suffering; the importance of active engagement in healing through prayer and acceptance; and the role of the community in both alleviating and amplifying distress. Our findings highlight local norms and strategies for adaptive coping, and the benefits of exploring local idioms to elucidate the braiding together of universal and cultural elements in psychological distress.

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“…Trauma that is experienced by a child inhibits appropriate development and predisposes the child to negative recurrence later in life, including comorbidity in physical and mental health problems (Ross, 2000;Williams, 2006). In addition, CT diminishes the basic sense of self and leads to destruction of intrapersonal and interpersonal capacities (Courtois, 2008;Herman, 1992;Lewis, 2012;Ringel & Brandell, 2012;Salovey & Sluyter, 1997;Shapiro, 2012;van der Kolk, 2014;Williams, 2006). e) Impairment in emotional capacities.…”

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“…In recent decades, the definition of trauma has been consistently inclusive of the following elements: (1) an identified event or series of events, that is (2) experienced by the individual as physically or emotionally harmful, threatening, or overwhelming, and (3) has lasting and holistic effects on the individual's functioning (Herman, 1992;Laplanche & Pontalis, 1973;Ringel & Brandell, 2012; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), 2012; van der Kolk, 2014). CT "overwhelms the ordinary human adaptation to life" (Herman, 1992, p. 33) and the person's sense of control, which may lead to maladaptive internalization of the event.…”

Section: Theoretical Foundation For Trauma Informed Care: Trauma Andmentioning

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Contemporary Trauma Theory and Trauma-Informed Care in Substance Use Disorders: A Conceptual Model for Integrating Coping and Resilience

Goodman¹

2017

ASW

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Trauma: Contemporary Directions in Theory, Practice, and Research

Cited by 40 publications

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At the End of the Tunnel, We Must See the Light

At the End of the Tunnel, We Must See the Light

Still Standing Inside: A Local Idiom Related to Trauma among Namibian Speakers of Khoekhoegowab

Contemporary Trauma Theory and Trauma-Informed Care in Substance Use Disorders: A Conceptual Model for Integrating Coping and Resilience

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