Klest, Bridget Freyd, Jennifer J Foynes, Melissa Ming
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Eight-hundred thirty-three members of an ethnically diverse longitudinal cohort study in Hawaii were surveyed about their personal exposure to several types of traumatic events, socioeconomic resources, and mental health symptoms. Results replicated findings from prior research that while men and women are exposed to similar rates of trauma overall...
Cardozo, Barbara Lopes Crawford, Carol Petit, Pilar Ghitis, Frida Sivilli, Teresa I Scholte, Willem F Ager, Alastair Eriksson, Cynthia
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In the aftermath of the civil war that extended from 1983-2009, humanitarian organizations provided aid to the conflict-affected population of the Vanni region in northern Sri Lanka. In August, 2010, a needs assessment was conducted to determine the mental-health status of Sri Lankan national humanitarian aid staff working in conditions of stress a...
Robinson, Jordan S Larson, Christine L Cahill, Shawn P
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Although research concerning the effects of traumatic and stressful life events on an individual's mental health has been plentiful in the past several decades, research aimed at understanding the nature of resilience and its role in this process has been less plentiful. The present study examined the relationship between a commonly used measure of...
Banducci, Anne N Gomes, Melissa MacPherson, Laura Lejuez, C W Potenza, Marc N Gelernter, Joel Amstadter, Ananda B
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Childhood emotional abuse (CEA) is a pervasive problem associated with negative sequelae such as elevated depressive symptoms. Key stress-related genes, such as the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism, interact with childhood abuse to produce elevated depressive symptoms in older adolescent girls, but not in older adolescent boys. To date, studies have not exami...
Stappenbeck, Cynthia A Hellmuth, Julianne C Simpson, Tracy Jakupcak, Matthew
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Aggression among combat veterans is of great concern. Although some studies have found an association between combat exposure and aggressive behavior following deployment, others conclude that aggression is more strongly associated with symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and that alcohol misuse may influence this association. Many of...
Seng, Julia S D'Andrea, Wendy Ford, Julian D
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Pregnancy is a critical time to identify and address maternal mental health problems, for the health of both mother and child. Pregnant women with histories of exposure to interpersonal psychological trauma may experience a range of mental health problems including but not limited to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In a community sample of 1,...
Galovski, Tara E Elwood, Lisa S Blain, Leah M Resick, Patricia A
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This study examined the clinical course of different dimensions of anger and their relationship to change in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a sample of 139 female survivors of interpersonal violence suffering from PTSD. Specifically, this study evaluated differences in the rates of change in anger dimensions by responsivity to treatment st...
Mulligan, Elizabeth A Wachen, Jennifer Schuster Naik, Aanand D Gosian, Jeffrey Moye, Jennifer
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The diagnosis of cancer is an uncontrollable stressor posing the threat of death and disfigurement, often followed by repeated exposure to aversive reminders in the form of noxious treatments, persisting side effects, reengagement at times of surveillance, and the threat of recurrence. The phenomenon of cancer as a traumatic stressor is explored in...
Chin, Dorothy Myers, Hector F Zhang, Muyu Loeb, Tamra Ullman, Jodie B Wyatt, Gail E Carmona, Jennifer
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The Healing Our Women Program, an 11-week integrated trauma/HIV intervention designed for HIV-positive women with child sexual abuse histories, has been found to reduce psychological distress in treatment groups compared to wait-list controls (Chin et al., 2004; Wyatt et al., 2011). This study examines the characteristics of participants who improv...
Stevens-Watkins, Danelle Sharma, Sakshi Knighton, Joi Sheree' Oser, Carrie B Leukefeld, Carl G
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African American women are at a greater risk for exposure to multiple traumatic events and are less likely to seek mental health services than White women. Many women report avoidant and passive coping strategies placing them at an increased risk for lower psychological adjustment. Thus, the purpose of the current study is to examine the role of cu...
