Traumatic Stress and Its Aftermath

Cultural, Community, and Professional Contexts

Sandra Lee

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781135424978
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Médecine
• Subtopic: Théorie, pratique et référence de la médecine

Explore the aftermath of traumatic stress as it affects various populations, including therapists themselves! This book will educate you about the aftermath of traumatic stress as it impacts people in a variety of settings. It explores the factors that lead to increased or reduced vulnerability to the effects of traumatic stress, emphasizing the impact of cumulative/multiple trauma rather than the effects of a single traumatic incident, to help you design and implement effective prevention and intervention programs. The specific populations and groups addressed in this important book include:

• adolescent girls involved in armed conflict in Colombia's guerilla war
• urban African-American youtha theoretical model for risk and resiliency
• people with strong spiritual/religious beliefshow spirituality can affect a person's reaction to traumatic stress
• women in recovery in a community aftercare shelter
• female trauma therapistsfactors affecting vicarious traumatization of helping professionals
• college students with histories of abuse

Providing a framework for understanding traumatic stress-related issues based on a variety of methodologies and measures, Traumatic Stress and Its Aftermath addresses important questions, such as:

• What is the relationship between the experiences of trauma or other stressful life events, and subsequent traumatic stress?
• What are the protective factors that can buffer or ameliorate the development of traumatic stress in the face of adverse life experiences, trauma, or other stressful events?
• How do these questions evolve in different cultural or community contexts, and with different populations?
• What are the implications for interventions for community institutions and mental health workers?
• What roles do self-esteem and spirituality play in a person's reaction to traumatic stress?
• How do reactions to traumatic stress differ between women who have been sexually abused as children and women who have not?

From editor Sandra S. Lee: Contemporary developments in the study of traumatic stress are shifting. This book reflects an emphasis on the study of traumatic stress in normal community, cultural, or college student populations and groups, while other literature has focused on individuals specifically diagnosed with PTSD. In addition, Traumatic Stress and Its Aftermath: Cultural, Community, and Professional Contexts emphasizes the search for risk and protective factors and factors that can buffer the relationship between trauma exposure and subsequent distress.

Index

Abortion, forced, 26, 32–33

Abuse, use of term, 57

Addiction Severity Index, 71

Adolescents

African-American boys, 5–19

control over one's body, 31–33

exposure to violence, 2, 6, 7–8, 9, 10, 13, 26, 40

girls in guerrilla forces, 26–36

sexual abuse of, 22, 23–24, 26, 27, 32–33, 35–36

sexual development of, 31–33

Adult romantic attachment

measure of, 54

sexual abuse and, 62

Africa, child soldiers in, 23, 25–26

African-American youth, risk and resiliency of, 5–19

Aftercare, 70, 77

Age

spirituality and, 44, 45

stressful life experiences and, 44, 45

trauma symptoms and, 44, 45

Aggression

assessment of, 11

and exposure to violence, 8, 13

self-esteem and, 13

social support and, 7, 8

Aggressive Behavior Scale, 11

Anxiety

assessment of, 11, 55, 73–74

and exposure to violence, 8

predictors of, 75

self-esteem and, 13

sexual abuse and, 61, 62

Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC), 21–23, 26

Attachment, as foundation of personality, 83–84

Attachment styles, 3–4

early studies of, 84

and history of abuse, 59, 61

measurement of, 85–90

of trauma therapists, 81–92

Avoidance, measurement of, 84, 86–90

Beck Anxiety Inventory, 55

Beck Depression Inventory, 54–55

Bosnia, child soldiers in, 23, 25

Children

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• About the Editor
• Introduction: Traumatic Stress and Its Aftermath
• Risk and Resiliency: A Test of a Theoretical Model for Urban, African-American Youth
• Adolescent Girls in Colombia's Guerrilla: An Exploration into Gender and Trauma Dynamics
• Impact of Stressful Life Experiences and of Spiritual Well-Being on Trauma Symptoms
• Psychological Characteristics of Women Who Do or Do Not Report a History of Sexual Abuse
• Physical and Sexual Trauma, Psychiatric Symptoms, and Sense of Community Among Women in Recovery: Toward a New Model of Shelter Aftercare
• The Relationship Between Attachment Styles and Vicarious Traumatization in Female Trauma Therapists
• Monographs “Separates” list continued
• Index