Post trauma Factors (PTS) : Coping and Rumination
Coping responses and cognitive appraisals are important elements of the process of adjustment following traumatic experience (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984; Freedy et al., 1993). They are the factors that facilitate or complicate the adaptation of individuals to highly...
Event related Factors (PTS) : Timing and Perceived Severity of the Event
Factors that are related to the traumatic event are important in the development of posttraumatic stress. Perceived severity and the timing of the traumatic experience are among the factors related to the event. In the literature, the perceived severity of the...
Factors Associated with PTS – Socio-demographic and Personality Characteristics
Socio-demographic variables and personality characteristics that existed before the traumatic event and as the models of PTS proposed, they have an important influence on reactions of individuals to trauma. In the literature, socio-demographic characteristics such as...
Models of PTG
Important models that have been developed to better understand the process of PTG are The Functional Descriptive Model of Posttraumatic Growth (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1995), The Model of Life Crises and Personal Growth (Schaefer & Moos, 1992), and the...
Psychological Effects of Traumatic Events on Survivors – Posttraumatic Growth (PTG)
In psychology literature, traumatic events have been widely examined in terms of their negative effects on survivors, namely posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic stress disorder. However, several studies showed that although its negative outcomes, traumatic events...
Psychological Effects of Traumatic Events on Survivors – Posttraumatic Stress (PTS)
In psychology literature, traumatic events have been widely examined in terms of their negative effects on survivors, namely posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic stress disorder. However, several studies showed that although its negative outcomes, traumatic events...
Traffic Accidents in the World and Turkey
Traffic accidents are widespread in the industrialized world. Traffic accident, in other words motor vehicle accident or car accident was defined as the collision of a moving vehicle with another vehicle or object along a road. As it was reported in DSM-5 (2013),...
Trauma and Traumatic Life Events
The word trauma dates back to 1690’s and it is derived from an Ancient Greek word ‘traûma’ which means physical wound and damage. In 1864, the meaning of “psychic wound, unpleasant experience which causes abnormal stress” was developed with a more psychological focus...
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