Trauma Proliferation and Stress Generation (TPSG) dynamics and their implications for clinical science.

IA Kira, H Shuwiekh, J Kucharska, M Fawzi… - American Journal of …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
The current research and clinical focus on single traumas fails to assess numerous
important trauma dynamics including trauma proliferation. In this study, 2 trauma …

Taxonomy of stressors and traumas: An update of the development-based trauma framework (DBTF): A life-course perspective on stress and trauma.

IA Kira - Traumatology, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
COVID-19 challenged the current paradigms of traumatic stress. Although there are
diagnostic taxonomies of mental disorders such as Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of …

[HTML][HTML] The development-based taxonomy of stressors and traumas: An initial empirical validation

I Kira - Psychology, 2021 - scirp.org
The development-based trauma framework (DBTF) proposed a comprehensive taxonomy of
stressors and traumas based on the salience of existence and identity development. The …

Beyond resilience and PTSD: Mapping the heterogeneity of responses to potential trauma.

GA Bonanno, AD Mancini - Psychological trauma: Theory, research …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
The formal acceptance of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a legitimate diagnostic
category in the 1980 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders stimulated a …

Do adding attachment, oppression, cumulative and proliferation trauma dynamics to PTSD Criterion “a” improve its predictive validity: Toward a paradigm shift?

IA Kira, M Fawzi, H Shuwiekh, L Lewandowski… - Current …, 2021 - Springer
The study investigated the predictive validity of Criterion A for PTSD and evaluated a new
development-based trauma dynamic non-linear system paradigm that considers global …

The dynamics of cumulative trauma and trauma types in adults patients with psychiatric disorders: Two cross-cultural studies

IA Kira, MH Fawzi, MM Fawzi - Traumatology, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
There is an intricate divide between three major valid paradigms in studying traumatic
processes: The psychiatric paradigm that focused mostly on the survival types of traumas …

The dynamics of posttraumatic growth across different trauma types in a Palestinian sample

IA Kira, S Aboumediene, JS Ashby… - Journal of Loss and …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
A Palestinian sample was used to explore the dynamics of posttraumatic growth (PTG)
across different trauma types. Cumulative trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, depression …

The path to posttraumatic growth versus posttraumatic stress disorder: Contributions of event centrality and coping

D Schuettler, A Boals - Journal of Loss and Trauma, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This study examined positive and negative trauma outcome predictors within the same
sample. Measures known to correlate with both posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) …

A broader view of trauma: A biopsychosocial-evolutionary view of the role of the traumatic stress response in the emergence of pathology and/or growth

M Christopher - Clinical psychology review, 2004 - Elsevier
The main goal of this paper is to articulate a biopsychosocial evolutionary approach to
understanding the traumatic stress response. The secondary goal of this paper is to draw out …

Trauma characteristics and posttraumatic growth: The mediating role of avoidance coping, intrusive thoughts, and social support.

M Brooks, N Graham-Kevan, S Robinson… - … Research, Practice, and …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Previous research suggests trauma characteristics can impact on posttraumatic
growth (PTG). The current study considers whether previously identified predictors of PTG …