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Trauma & PTSD
Explore resources on trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, including assessment, therapy and continuing support. Read about different experiences and the questions involved in finding appropriate care. The collection recognizes the importance of individual circumstances and does not ask readers to revisit distressing memories or undertake trauma treatment on their own.
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Symptoms are understood in context, including overlap and co-occurring needs.
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PTSD in Children and Adolescents: Family and Specialist Care
Children and teenagers need developmentally appropriate PTSD assessment and specialist treatment. This guide explains family support, trauma-focused care, confidentiality, safeguarding, and when to seek…
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PTSD With Dissociation or Substance Use: Coordinating Treatment
When PTSD overlaps with dissociation or substance use, treatment needs clear responsibilities, shared safety decisions, and condition-specific care. Learn what to ask about assessment,…
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Moral Injury and Traumatic Grief: Differences and Support
Moral injury concerns violated values; traumatic grief concerns loss intertwined with distress about a death. Neither automatically means PTSD. Learn what assessment should explore…
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Trauma Stabilization and Grounding: Uses, Limits and Next Steps
Grounding may help you reconnect with the present during flashbacks or dissociation, but it is not a PTSD cure. Learn how stabilization can support…
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Birth Trauma and PTSD: Recognition, Assessment and Care
A frightening birth can leave lasting distress even when the medical outcome is reassuring. Learn how clinicians recognize birth-related PTSD, assess overlapping needs, and…
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Trauma-Focused CBT, CPT and Prolonged Exposure: Comparing Care Options
CPT and prolonged exposure are specific trauma-focused CBT approaches for PTSD. Compare their practical demands, evidence, consent, pacing, and assessment needs before choosing care.
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EMDR for PTSD: Evidence, Assessment and What to Expect
EMDR is an evidence-based PTSD treatment, but suitability depends on assessment, safety, preferences, and co-occurring needs. Learn what sessions involve and how to evaluate…
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Complex PTSD test
Complex PTSD includes PTSD symptoms alongside difficulties with emotions, self-concept and relationships.
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Childhood trauma self-assessment
Early adversity may continue to affect safety, trust and emotional responses in adulthood.
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Trauma and stress self-assessment
Stress and responses to trauma can affect sleep, attention, emotions and a sense of safety.
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Dissociation test
Dissociation can involve feeling detached from yourself, your surroundings or parts of your experience.
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Private Trauma and PTSD Treatment: How to Evaluate a Program
A credible trauma program should match the intervention, pace and level of care to the person – not promise that one method can release…
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