Psychological Trauma

A Psychological Trauma is a trauma to a mind.

• Example(s):
  • Bullying-based Trauma, that is connected to bullying.
  • Community Violence-based Trauma, that is connected to Community Violence.
  • Disaster-based Trauma, that is connected to Disasters.
  • Early Childhood Trauma, during early childhood.
  • Intimate Partner Violence-based Trauma, that is connected to Intimate Partner Violence.
  • Medical Trauma.
  • Physical Abuse-based Trauma, that is connected to Physical Abuse.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Physical Trauma.
• See: Psychological Resilience, Psychiatry, Psychology, Stress (Psychological), Emotion, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Protective Factor.

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References

2021

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_trauma Retrieved:2021-1-15.
  • Psychological trauma is damage to a person's mind as a result of one or more distressing events which caused overwhelming amounts of stress that exceeded the person's ability to cope or integrate the emotions involved, eventually leading to serious, long-term negative consequences. Given that trauma differs between individuals, according to their subjective experiences, people will react to similar traumatic events differently. In other words, not all people who experience a potentially traumatic event will actually become psychologically traumatized. However, it is possible for some people to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after being exposed to a major traumatic event. This discrepancy in risk rate can be attributed to protective factors some individuals may have that enable them to cope with trauma; they are related to temperamental and environmental factors from among others. Some examples are resilience characteristics and active seeking of help.

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