We all experience trauma over our lifetimes — the loss of a loved one, a bad injury or medical scare, a violent attack, a natural disaster. For most of us, fortunately, these incidents are few and far ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Learn what not to say to someone with PTSD. Show empathy and support with better communication strategies to aid healing and understanding.

Metahab at Sacramento State connects academic, research, and interprofessional resources to provide strengths-based curriculum, community programs, and organizational support promoting resilience, ...

Much of clinical psychologist Dr Edith Shiro's professional life revolves around the axis of trauma. In her Miami practice she specialises in helping people to unpick their life's most destabilising ...

Dear Doctors: My wife has a condition where any disruption to her skin, like a bug bite, a scratch or exposure to poison ivy, results in a rash that spreads over half of her body. It’s not related to ...

The experience of significant life events, especially difficult ones, can motivate reflection on things we want to change. Psychologists have been studying this idea—known as post-traumatic growth—for ...

Alix Woolard receives funding from the Perth Children's Hospital Foundation and Channel Seven Telethon Trust. Traumatic experiences are surprisingly common, with about three-quarters of the population ...

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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that develops in response to experiencing or witnessing a distressing event involving the threat of death or extreme bodily harm.