Anxiety & Stress Disorders

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While recovering from trauma, survivors have a chance to find a voice, meaning, and even beauty. 

Unmasked: Face to Face with the Trauma Story

Slideshows

Patients with serious mental illness such as schizophrenia are more likely to report greater impairment in general functioning as a result of trauma, which is why trauma-informed care is so important.

3 Essential Elements of Trauma-Informed Care

Infectious outbreaks have shaped the psyche of humanity for times immemorial.

Fears, Outbreaks, and Pandemics: Lessons Learned

The recognition of a wide range of traumatic experiences-physical or sexual assault, motor vehicular accidents, natural disasters, terrorism-has implications for understanding the vulnerability to vicarious trauma inherent in a clinician’s practice.

Vicarious Trauma in Clinicians: Fostering Resilience and Preventing Burnout

Successful, trauma-informed care for patients with serious mental illness requires providers to assess, acknowledge, and treat trauma.

Recognizing and Treating Trauma in the Inpatient Psychiatric Setting

The privacy and security of our offices-the therapeutic bunkers within which our wounded patient-warriors hunker down against an unseen enemy-is the fundamental first barricade between private sufferings and the potential for public humiliation.

Compromised Confidentiality in the Military Is Harmful

As psychiatrists, we practice holistic medicine. Our traumatized patients depend on us to uncover their emotional pain delicately, to understand its effects on their minds and bodies, and to recognize and draw on their unique strengths and vulnerabilities as we promote recovery.

Trauma in Psychiatric Practice

Traumatic brain injury, criminal responsibility, traumatic stress, and autism spectrum/neurodevelopmental disorders slideshow

Slideshow: Developmental Psychopathology Comes of Age

The first half of the 20th century saw 2 world wars, indiscriminate aerial bombing of civilians, the dropping of the atomic bomb, and the Holocaust-all of which created intense trauma for soldiers and civilians.Yet it was not until the American intervention in a post-colonial civil war in Southeast Asia that the psychiatric community in the 1970s formally described what we now call PTSD.

The Science and Politics of PTSD

In preparing DSM-IV, we worked hard to avoid causing confusion in forensic settings. Realizing that lawyers read documents in their own special way, we had a panel of forensic psychiatrists go over every word to reduce the risks that DSM IV could be misused in the courts.

Traumatic Stress Disorders

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