Trauma Related Content

The Effects of Trauma on Military Members and Their Families

Members of the armed forces can face stressors and traumatic events. These experiences can lead to trauma-related mental health disorders. Trauma can impact military members in different ways, including feelings of anger or isolation from family and friends. Service members can develop PTSD or other...

Understanding Child Abuse and Its Effects on Mental Health

Children are among the most vulnerable people in our society. This is true across continents, cultures, financial situations, and ethnicities. Our youth are a precious resource and one we should guard carefully. Unfortunately, many kids are at risk of or are currently experiencing child abuse. While...

Video: Understanding Trauma and Trauma-Related Disorders

When it comes to recognizing and addressing trauma and trauma-related disorders, it’s important to separate fact from fiction. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), for example, is often associated exclusively with the horrors of war, but it’s a myth that only veterans of combat develop the...

Video: Reducing the Impact of Dissociative Identity Disorder

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is often misunderstood and can be easily missed—or misdiagnosed—by experts. While many of us have come to believe that folks with DID jump between personas and personalities, a very small portion of those with the condition actually exhibit this behavior. The...

Everything You Need To Know About Trauma and PTSD

All of us will encounter stress throughout our daily lives. When a strong emotional response to an extremely stressful or disturbing event impairs a person’s ability to cope, it’s often considered to be traumatic. While trauma doesn’t always directly lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), it...

Understanding the Impact of Domestic Violence

Relationships, while meant to enrich our lives and those of our partners, can have a darker side that often goes unnoticed—or unaddressed. Domestic violence is a serious public health issue that impacts survivors on a physical and mental scale. While the effects of violence can be devastating, they...

Video: Recognizing and Understanding Complex PTSD

Chances are pretty good that you’re familiar with the term post-traumatic stress disorder, commonly known as PTSD. PTSD has long been recognized as a psychiatric condition that can develop in the wake of trauma. But in recent years, experts have begun using a separate, less well-known term—complex...

Everything You Need To Know About Grief and Loss

Grief and loss can prove suffocating for those who are impacted by them, especially at first. Most people have at least some experience with grief, whether first- or second-hand, and understand how loss can affect the person who goes through it. Even those of us who have very little personal...

Course Exploring Trauma Draws Expert Presenters and Thousands of Attendees

Psychological trauma can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender, nationality, or socioeconomic status. Traumatic stress knows no borders. According to a 2016 study, 70% of people surveyed worldwide had experienced at least one traumatic event in their lifetimes. McLean Hospital’s free course, The...

Video: Recognizing Trauma in Adults and Young People

Presented by Sophia L. Maurasse, MD , McLean Hospital. Whether a distressing event will lead to trauma doesn’t solely rely on the event or the individual person. In this talk, Maurasse explains how a traumatic experience is dependent on what we bring into the situation, in terms of our genetic...

Video: Trauma in the United States and Around the World

Presented by Alaptagin Khan, MBBS, FRSPH , McLean Hospital. Regardless of where we live or which language we speak, we are exposed to potentially traumatic experiences every day. Khan explains how adverse childhood experiences impact physical and mental health on a national and global scale. Watch...

Video: Solution: Narrative Exposure Therapy

Presented by Benjamin Iffland, PhD, Bielefeld University. Narrative exposure therapy (NET) is an evidence-based method of treatment that has been shown to be helpful in reducing symptoms related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It has been particularly successful in supporting people who...

Video: Lessons Learned From Working With Displaced Youth

Presented by Wahab Yousafzai, MBBS, FCPS, Shifa International Hospital Islamabad. In this talk on displaced populations, Yousafzai discusses various aspects of human displacement, including social and emotional consequences and possible interventions. Yousafzai has worked with displaced persons in...

Video: Solution: Community Resiliency Model

Presented by Linda Grabbe, PhD, APRN-BC, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, and Elaine Miller-Karas, MSW, LCSW, Trauma Resource Institute. The Trauma Resource Institute developed the community resiliency model (CRM) to help people identify and regulate their emotional...

Video: Global Impact of Trauma Course – Panel Q+A

In this Q&A session, audience members of the live Global Impact of Trauma Course ask questions about the five talks presented. Below are a few highlights from the discussion. Watch the Q&A for an in-depth conversation on the topics covered in the course. Audience Questions Expert speakers answered...