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  • Enjoying the Violence of War: Association With Posttraumatic Symptomatology in U.S. Combat Veterans (PDF, 392KB) May 2024 by Elizabeth E. Van Voorhees, Kirsten H. Dillon, Anselm Crombach, Tiffany Beaver, Katherine Kelton, Jennifer H. Wortmann, VISN-6 Mid-Atlantic MIRECC Workgroup, and Jason Nieuwsma
  • “If We Don't Forgive, It's Like Holding on to Them”: A Qualitative Study of Religious and Spiritual Coping on Psychological Recovery in Older Crime Victims (PDF, 309KB) May 2024 by Jessica Satchell, Nicola Dalrymple, Gerard Leavey, and Marc Serfaty
  • Psychometric Properties of the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 in Treatment-Seeking Black Veterans (PDF, 263KB) March 2024 by Grace Patrick, Mara L. Ferrie, Jennifer Petell, Lora Rose Hunter, C. Laurel Franklin, and Amanda M. Raines
  • Polyvictimization, Polystrengths, and Their Contribution to Subjective Well-Being and Posttraumatic Growth (Open access) March 2024 Matthew Brooks, Elizabeth Taylor, and Sherry Hamby
  • Parental Separation and Death During Childhood as Predictors of Adult Psychopathology: An Examination of Racial Differences (PDF, 204KB) February 2024 Jonathan Singer, Caroline Cummings, and Emil F. Coccaro
  • The Relationship Between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Race-Based Traumatic Stress (PDF, 340KB) February 2024 by Alex L. Pieterse, Veronica Johnson, and Robert T. Carter
  • The Moral Injury and Distress Scale: Psychometric Evaluation and Initial Validation in Three High-Risk Populations (PDF, 319KB) February 2024 by Sonya B. Norman, Brandon J. Griffin, Robert H. Pietrzak, Carmen McLean, Jessica L. Hamblen, and Shira Maguen
  • A Latent Class Analysis of Campus Sexual Assault (PDF, 1474KB) February 2024 by Lindsay Smith Neutzling, Sylvia A. Marotta-Walters, William R. Dardick, and Bagmi Das
  • Intergroup Violence Among Jewish and Arab Youths in Israel: Testing a Multifactor Ecological Model (PDF, 374KB) January 2024 by Osnat Zamir, Miriam Schiff, and Ruth Pat-Horenczyk
  • The Moderator Roles of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in the Relationship Between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Growth in Syrian Refugees (PDF, 741KB) January 2024 by Emre Han Alpay
  • Examining the Complex Relations Between Childhood Adversity, Mindfulness, Attachment, and Various Personality Outcomes: A Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling Approach (PDF, 685KB) January 2024 by Jennifer Roters email the author, Angela Book
  • Adverse Childhood Event Subtypes and Routine Diabetes Care Utilization Among U.S. Adults With Type 2 Diabetes (PDF, 698KB) April 2024 by Ariel Hoadley, Sarah Bass, and Daniel J. Rubin
  • Examining the Unique and Interactive Associations of Gender and Race on PTSD Symptom Severity Among Military Sexual Trauma Survivors (PDF, 146KB) November 2023 by Taylor L. Ceroni, Chelsea R. Ennis, Mary O. Shapiro, Joseph I. Constans, C. Laurel Franklin, and Amanda M. Raines

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    One article from each issue of Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy will be highlighted as an "Editor's Choice" article. Selection is based on the recommendations of the associate editors, the paper's potential impact to the field, the distinction of expanding the contributors to, or the focus of, the science, or its discussion of an important future direction ...

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    Early Predictors of Prolonged Grief Among Bereaved Trauma Survivors 8.5 Years After a Terrorist Attack Kristin Alve Glad1, Grete Dyb1, 2, Paul A. Boelen3, 4, Tore Wentzel-Larsen1, 5, and Synne Ø.Stensland1, 6 1 Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway 2 Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo 3 Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Social ...

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    Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy Machine Learning Models Predict PTSD Severity and Functional Impairment: A Personalized Medicine Approach for Uncovering Complex Associations Among Heterogeneous Symptom Profiles

  4. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

    Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy publishes empirical research on the psychological effects of trauma. The journal is intended to be a forum for an interdisciplinary discussion on trauma, blending science, theory, practice, and policy. Gender differences in posttraumatic stress symptoms, marital satisfaction, and ...

  5. PDF Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

    Results: Most participants were trauma-exposed based on Criterion A (82%) and the expanded (88%) criterion. When no exposure criterion was used, 13.7% met diagnostic requirements for PTSD or CPTSD, 13.2% when the expanded criterion was used, and 13.2% when Criterion A was used. The 5 psychologically threatening events were as strongly ...

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    Caregiver Regulation: A Modifiable Target Promoting Resilience to Early Adverse Experiences Kathryn L. Humphreys1,2, Lucy S. King2, Katherine L. Guyon-Harris2,3, and Charles H. Zeanah2 1 Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University 2 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University School of Medicine 3 Department of Pediatrics, University of ...

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    Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy Parent-Reported Posttraumatic Stress Reactions in Children and Adolescents: Findings From the Mental Health of Parents and Children in Ukraine Study Dmytro Martsenkovskyi, Thanos Karatzias, Philip Hyland, Mark Shevlin, Menachem Ben-Ezra, Eoin McElroy, Enya Redican,

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    Program in Mental Illness Research and Treatment, the Medical Research Service of the Veterans Affairs Central Virginia Health Care System, and the Department of Veterans Affairs Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC). Since Suzannah K. Creech and Grace Boyers McKee are employees of the U.

  9. PDF Research, Practice, and Policy Psychological Trauma: Theory

    Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy Exploring the Relationship Between Alienation Appraisals, Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress, and Depression Rachel McIlveen, Ryan Mitchell, David Curran, Kevin Dyer, Mary Corry, Anne DePrince, Martin Dorahy, and Donncha Hanna

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    Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy A Pilot Study Examining Roles of Cognitions and Affect Between Positive Memory Processing and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Severity Ateka A. Contractor, Stephanie V. Caldas, Anne N. Banducci, and Cherie Armour

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    trauma history (Diagnostic Interview Schedule) and somatization symptoms (Composite International Diagnostic Interview). Using Betrayal Trauma Theory as a guide, respondents were classified into "no trauma,""nonbetrayal trauma," and "betrayal trauma" groups. Results: Compared to "no trauma" patients,

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    Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy Low Reliability When Determining Criterion A for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder From Self-Report Descriptions of Traumatic Events: The Need for Transparent Methods Mikael Rubin, Anna Alban Foulser, Emma Siegel, Jasper A. J. Smits, Mark B. Powers, Abigail Angkaw, and Michael J. Telch

  13. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

    A Consensus Statement on Trauma Mental Health: The New Haven Competency Conference Process and Major Findings (PDF, 77KB) July 2014. by Joan M. Cook, Elana Newman, and The New Haven Trauma Competency Group. Date created: 2009. Sample articles from the APA journal Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

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    Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy Coping Flexibility and Trauma: The Perceived Ability to ... Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0020921. Coping Flexibility and Trauma: The Perceived Ability to Cope With Trauma (PACT) Scale George A. Bonanno Columbia ...

  15. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

    Online access. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association on behalf of Division 56. It was established in 2009 and covers research on the psychological effects of trauma. [1] The incoming editor-in-chief is Kathleen Kendall-Tackett of Texas ...

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    Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy Cultural Adaptation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Trauma-Affected Children in China Jia Li, Jina Li, Lin Yuan, Ying Zhou, Weijun Zhang, and Zhiyong Qu ... Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org ...

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    Happiness During a Mass Trauma: Predicting Happiness During the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Function, Stress, Anxiety, and Coping Keren Cohen-Louck and Inna Levy Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy , Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 493-501

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    Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy Moderators of Treatment Efficacy in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Trauma-Sensitive Yoga as an Adjunctive Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Viann N. Nguyen-Feng, Hilary Hodgdon, David Emerson, Rowan Silverberg, and Cari Jo Clark

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    This study conducted a meta-analysis of published randomized clinical group trials for adult survivors of trauma to examine the efficacy of the group format. Effect sizes for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) severity outcome were examined. Sixteen studies were included, with a total of 1686 participants.

  20. PDF Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

    As defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; DSM-IV; American Psychi-atric Association, 1994), PTSD diagnosis requires that an individ-ual meet a certain number of criteria within each set of symptom clusters (i.e., re-experiencing, avoidance, and arousal).

  21. PDF Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

    multimodal, trauma-focused psychotherapy, the trauma field has yet to develop an empirically supported, criterion standard set of interventions that are effective at the various stages of

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    Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy Comparing Mindfulness and Psychoeducation Treatments for Combat-Related PTSD Using a Telehealth Approach Barbara L. Niles, Julie Klunk-Gillis, Donna J. Ryngala, Amy K. Silberbogen, Amy Paysnick, and Erika J. Wolf Online First Publication, November 14, 2011.

  23. Reductions in PTSD severity precede reductions in pain intensity among

    Objective: Chronic pain often co-occurs with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The mutual maintenance hypothesis proposes that there may be shared underlying mechanisms of symptoms of pain exacerbating PTSD, and vice versa. The association between PTSD and pain intensity remains understudied. To elucidate the relationship, the present study examined the temporality of changes in PTSD ...