Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): What We Have Learned and What We Still Have Not Found Out
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This article discusses the biomedical and the social constructionist models applied to response to trauma, presents the prevalence and the etiology of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and describes its biological and psychological correlates in children and adults. It concludes that future research might benefit from investigating factors that may protect people who have been exposed to an event likely to be traumatic from presenting with PTSD symptoms, and factors that may affect the longitudinal course of PTSD and treatment effectiveness.
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Childhood trauma and cumulative lifetime trauma were found to be strong predictors of PTSD in samples of participants with a mixture of index trauma types.
“Childhood trauma and cumulative lifetime trauma were found to be strong predictors of PTSD in samples of participants with a mixture of index trauma types (Cloitre et al., 2009;Weich et al., 2009;Flouri, 2005) but inconsistent findings have been reported for rape and sexual assault survivors, with some support for the non-significant multivariate findings in our study (Elklit and Christiansen, 201”
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- Authors
- Flouri, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Flouri, Eirini
- ORCID
- Flouri, Eirini
- Venue
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2005-04
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 373-379
- ISSN
- 0886-2605 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-6518
- OpenAlex
- W2147992769
- Cited by
- 235
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 28 · 2013: 20 · 2012: 23
- FWCI
- 14.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Keywords
- post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma response, biomedical model, social constructionism, PTSD prevalence, PTSD etiology, biological correlates, psychological correlates, children, adults, protective factors, longitudinal course, treatment effectiveness
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Child, Humans, Mental Health, Models, Psychological, Research Design, Risk Factors, Social Environment, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Stress, Psychological, United States
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