During war, military service members are exposed to a number of potentially traumatic events. In addition to life threatening combat situations, service members may witness injury and death, be involved...
A mass shooting is an incident involving multiple victims of firearm-related violence. There is no widely accepted definition of the term "mass shooting", although it is normally understood to exclude...
Emotional abuse is an attempt to control, in just the same way that physical abuse is an attempt to control another person. The only difference is that the emotional abuser...
The definition of physical abuse, according to the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, is: "Non-accidental use of force that results in bodily injury, pain, or impairment....
When someone is being verbally abused, the person attacking them may use a combination of both overt forms of abuse like engaging in name-calling and making threats but also more...
Traumatic grief is the bereavement profession's way of defining grief thoughts and reactions that are more traumatic, and consequently challenging, than those generally suffered after a bereavement, and which last...
Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government or its citizens to further certain political or social objectives. Law...
Refugees have experienced many extremely stressful events because of political or religious oppression, war, migration, and resettlement. It is difficult to even define all of the types of events they...
Medical trauma is a “set of psychological and physiological responses of patients and their families to pain, injury, serious illness, medical procedures, and invasive or frightening treatment experiences”. Responses to...