Encyclopedia of trauma [electronic resource] : an interdisciplinary guide / editor, Charles R. Figley.

"A SAGE Reference Publication."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Abduction/Kidnapping -- Abortion -- Acute Stress Disorder -- Additive Trauma -- African American Culture and Trauma -- African Women and Girls' Trauma -- Alcohol and Trauma -- Anthropology and Trauma -- Anthropology and War -- Art and Trauma -- Assisted Suicide -- Battered Women -- Bearing Witness to Trauma -- Bereavement -- Biological Effects of Physical and Psychological Trauma -- Biological Mechanism of Traumatic Stress Response -- Biology and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Blaming the Victim -- Boundaries and Boundary Violations -- Boundary Issues for Traumatologists -- Brain and Memory -- Brain and Trauma -- Burnout -- Campus Violence -- Childhood and Adolescent Trauma: An Overview -- Childhood and Adolescent Trauma: Assessment and Treatment -- Childhood Trauma and the Juvenile Justice System -- Childhood Traumatic Stress -- Children of War -- Clergy, Counseling by -- Clergy, Sexual Abuse by -- Clinical Trauma Psychology -- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -- Cognitive Processing Therapy -- Cognitive Restructuring and Trauma -- Combat Chaplains --

Combat Medics and Corpsmen -- Combat Mortuary Services -- Combat Stress Control -- Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Combat-Related Stress Injury: Theory, Research, and Management -- Community Disasters -- Community Resilience -- Community Violence -- Compassion Fatigue -- Complex Trauma -- Comstock Act -- Conservation of Resources Theory -- Conspiracy of Silence -- Correctional Officers and Trauma -- Counseling and Education about Trauma -- Counterbalancing Stress -- Countertransference -- Crime Scene Investigation -- Criminal Behavior Consequent to War -- Critical Illness in Children -- Critical Incident Stress -- Cults and Sects -- Cultural Aspects of Trauma -- Cultural Diversity in Trauma Response -- Culture and Cultural Beliefs -- Culture and Trauma -- Cumulative Trauma -- Dance and Trauma -- Date Rape/Acquaintance Rape -- Death Notification in War -- Debriefing -- Despair, Posttraumatic -- Disaster Medicine -- Disaster Mortuary Services -- Disaster-Related Trauma -- Disasters, History of -- Dissociation --

Dissociative Identity Disorder and Trauma -- Early Interventions -- Emergency Care and Services -- Encoding Trauma, Neurobiology of -- Ethical Dilemmas in Treatment of Trauma -- Ethics -- Ethnicity, Culture, and Disaster Response -- Evidence-Based Practice -- Expressive Art Therapies -- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Theory and Research -- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Treatment -- Family and Couples Trauma and Treatment -- Family-Based Treatment for Child Traumatic Stress -- Fear, Posttraumatic -- Financial Crises and Meltdowns -- First Responders and Trauma -- Fragility, Posttraumatic -- Genetic Epidemiology -- Genocide -- Genocide, Cambodia's Mass Casualty Trauma -- Genocide in Non-Western Nations -- Grief, Complicated -- Grief and Mourning -- Growth, Posttraumatic -- Hate Crimes -- Hippocampus -- Homicide and Trauma -- Human Trafficking -- Humanitarian Missions -- Humor and Trauma -- Hypnosis in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Iatrogenic Effects -- Incarceration and Trauma -- Incest --

Internet Terrorism -- Internet-Based Therapies for Posttraumatic Stress -- Journalism -- Law Enforcement Officers -- Lawsuits against Behavioral Health Professionals -- Lawsuits against Medical Professionals -- Limbic System -- Literary Expressions of Trauma -- Male Rape -- Managing Trauma Symptoms -- Marital Rape -- Marriage and the Marital Relationship -- Mass Violence -- Medical Marijuana and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Medical Trauma Research -- Meditation -- Memorial Architecture -- Memory Work -- Military Families, Effects of Combat and Deployment on -- Military Psychology and Combat Stress Injuries -- Military Sexual Abuse -- Military Social Work and Combat Stress Management -- Military Trauma -- Murder -- Neurobiological Effects of Trauma -- Neurobiology of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Suicide -- Nongovernmental Organizations, Governments, and Humanitarian Aid -- Pain -- Parenting during and after Traumatic Events -- Peacekeeping Missions -- Perinatal Trauma -- Perinatal Trauma, Long-Term Consequences of --

Perpetrators of Trauma -- Personality Disorders -- Pharmacotherapy -- Philosophy and Ethics of Trauma Treatments -- Philosophy of Trauma -- Philosophy of Trauma Nursing -- Poetry and Trauma -- Posttraumatic Growth among Asylum Seekers and Other Immigrants -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Comorbidity -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, History of -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Assessment and Systemic Treatment -- Primary Care -- Prolonged Exposure -- Promoting Resilience in the Traumatized -- Protective Factors in Childhood Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Psychobiology of Crisis -- Psychological First Aid -- Psychological First Aid for Older Adults -- Psychological Injury and Law -- Psychological Responses to Trauma -- Psychological Trauma -- Psychological Trauma Research -- Psychoneuroimmunology and Trauma -- Psychopharmacology, Psychiatry, and Trauma -- Psychosensory Therapy -- Psychospiritual Impact of Disaster -- Public Health -- Race-Based Traumatic Stress -- Racial and Ethnic Factors -- Racial Variations in the Psychobiology of Trauma --

Racism-Induced Trauma -- Rape Counseling -- Rape Crisis Centers -- Rape Trauma Syndrome -- Rapist Profiles -- Recovery from Trauma -- Refugees -- Relapse Prevention and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Religious and Pastoral Responses to Trauma -- Religious Fundamentalism -- Resilience -- Resilience, Growth, and Thriving -- Resilience and Hurricane Katrina -- Resilience Bolstering -- Resilient Posttraumatic Adjustment in Childhood and Beyond -- Resource Loss Among Adults, Groups, and Communities -- Resource Loss among Children and Families -- Retraumatization -- Rituals and Ceremonies, Therapeutic Use of -- Role of Media in Managing Disasters -- Role of Trauma in Ethnic and Cultural Identity -- Sanctuary Model -- School Shootings -- Secondary Trauma among Behavioral Health Professionals -- Secondary Trauma among Chaplains -- Secondary Trauma among First Responders -- Secondary Trauma among Judges, Jurors, Attorneys, and Courtroom Personnel -- Secondary Trauma among Medical Professionals -- Secondary Trauma among Medics and Corpsmen -- Secondary Traumatic Stress --

Self-Regulation -- Sensationalism and the Economics of News Media -- Sexual Assault, Drug Facilitated -- Sexual Assault and Trauma -- Sexual Compulsion and Trauma -- Sexual Harassment of Women -- Sexual Predators -- Sexual Trauma, Causes of -- Shame -- Shared Trauma -- Silencing Response -- Slavery and Forced Servitude -- Social Learning Theory and Sexual Aggression -- Social Support and Trauma -- Social Work with the Traumatized Homeless -- Somatic Complaints -- Spiritual and Religious Growth -- Spiritual Intelligence and Posttraumatic Growth -- Stigma -- Stress Inoculation Training -- Suicide -- Survival and Coping after Rape -- Systemic Trauma Research -- Terrorism, History of -- Theories of Psychological Stress -- Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma -- Trauma, Causes of -- Trauma, Definitions of -- Trauma, Identity, and the Workplace -- Trauma and Autobiography -- Trauma and Domestic Violence -- Trauma and Homelessness -- Trauma and Metabolic Syndrome -- Trauma and Metaphor -- Trauma and Selfhood -- Trauma and Sexuality --

Trauma and Social Work Practice -- Trauma as Entertainment -- Trauma Assessment -- Trauma Caregivers -- Trauma Education -- Trauma Images in Photography, Film, and Video -- Trauma Memories: Research and Ethics -- Trauma Prevention -- Trauma Psychology Research -- Trauma Research, Social Work Contributions to -- Trauma Resilience, Ecology of -- Trauma Survival Strategies -- Trauma Triggers -- Trauma-Organized Systems -- Trauma-Related Happiness and Pleasure -- Trauma-Related Physical Symptoms and Illnesses -- Traumatic Bereavement -- Traumatic Inventions and the Ethics of Scientific Discovery -- Traumatic Stress and Resilience -- Traumatic Stress Responses -- Traumatization in the Name of Religion -- Traumatized Entertainers -- Traumatized Journalists -- Traumatized Nurses -- Traumatized Physicians -- Traumatized Practitioners, Supervisors of -- Traumatized Scientists -- Traumatology -- Vicarious Trauma -- Victim, Survivor, Thriver -- Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy -- Vulnerability, Posttraumatic -- War, Origins in Animals and Early Societies -- War Crimes -- Wars for Symbols -- Wars in Civilized Societies -- Wartime Rape -- Workplace Violence.

This reference source on trauma includes articles on human behavioral and neurobiological responses to trauma, which are largely shaped by our genetic and cultural heritage. Includes coverages of professional standards in working with the traumatized and the effects of trauma on health professionals.

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