Fortunately, large -
scale traumatic events such as terrorist attacks are relatively rare, but that means that their effects on mental health are tricky to study systematically.
At the time of the September 11 attacks, the accepted protocol for handling large -
scale traumatic events was to perform so - called critical incident stress debriefing, like that Dass - Brailsford led in New York, to discuss events and assess how people are reacting psychologically.
Not exact matches
«In principle, we could simulate the
event, find out the level of exposure of each of those victims, put it in our
scaling law, and we could estimate their risk of developing a
traumatic brain injury that may not be detected in an MRI.»
Rushing into a full -
scale claw trimming is a foolhardy move unless you're really into operatic drama and
traumatic events.
Today, with vastly expanded channels for the propagation of images,
events as varied as the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the deaths of celebrities such as Princess Diana and Michael Jackson have the ability to become
traumatic on a global
scale.
We used the Japanese - language version of the Impact of
Event Scale - Revised (IES - R - J)[28][29] to assess cancer - related
traumatic stress with three subscales measuring intrusion, avoidance, and hyperarousal.
Although there are certainly other
events that could be categorized as
traumatic, it is helpful to designate specific categories in order to provide the most reliable
scale to refer to in clinical and other professional settings and for the purpose of standardizing qualifications of
traumatic experiences.
Two rating
scales can be used by clinicians to help identify children's or adolescents» exposure to child abuse, interpersonal violence and other
traumatic events, to identify PTSD symptoms, and to monitor symptoms.
Measures utilized include
Traumatic Events Screening Inventory — Child / Self Report, Generalized Expectancies for Negative Mood Regulation, Clinician Administered PTSD
Scale, Post-
Traumatic Cognitions Inventory, Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children, and the Hope
Scale.
Measures utilized include the
Traumatic Events Screening Inventory — Child / Self Report (TESI - C / SR), Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument, Second Version (MAYSI — 2), and the
Traumatic Experiences (TE)
Scale.
The
scale consists of 22 items constituting the subscales of (1) intrusions, (2) avoidance, and (3) hyperarousal, the three main characteristics of psychological dysfunction after a
traumatic life
event.
Abstract: The experience of
traumatic events and posttraumatic stress disorder were examined among n = 77 patients of a Turkish - language outpatient unit at a University Department of Psychosomatics in Essen, Germany, using the Essen Trauma Inventory (ETI) and the Sense of Coherence
Scale (SOC - 29).