Trauma through the life cycle: A review of current literature

SLA Straussner, AJ Calnan - Clinical Social Work Journal, 2014 - Springer
This paper provides an overview of common traumatic events and responses, with a specific
focus on the life cycle. It identifies selected “large T” and “micro” traumas encountered during …

The challenge of estimating PTSD prevalence in the context of ongoing trauma: The example of Israel during the Second Intifada

YSG Hoffman, GM Diamond, JD Lipsitz - Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2011 - Elsevier
Many studies attempt to gauge population prevalence of post traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) following a major catastrophe. However, little is known about the validity of these …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in continuous traumatic stress theory: Traumatogenic dynamics and consequences of intergroup conflict: The Palestinian adolescents case

IA Kira, JS Ashby, L Lewandowski, AWN Alawneh… - Psychology, 2013 - scirp.org
The goal of this paper is to advance the theory of chronic and traumatic stressors that have
been identified as type III traumas in the trauma developmentally-based framework (DBTF) …

Protective factors and predictors of vulnerability to chronic stress: A comparative study of 4 communities after 7 years of continuous rocket fire

M Gelkopf, R Berger, A Bleich, RC Silver - Social science & medicine, 2012 - Elsevier
Many communities across the world are chronically exposed to extreme violence.
Responses of residents from a city and rural community in Southern Israel, both exposed to …

A school‐based, teacher‐mediated prevention program (ERASE‐Stress) for reducing terror‐related traumatic reactions in Israeli youth: A quasi‐randomized controlled …

M Gelkopf, R Berger - Journal of Child Psychology and …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Since September 2000 Israeli children have been exposed to a large number
of terrorist attacks. A universal, school‐based intervention for dealing with the threat of …

An intervention for reducing secondary traumatization and improving professional self-efficacy in well baby clinic nurses following war and terror: A random control …

R Berger, M Gelkopf - International journal of nursing studies, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Due to the terror and war-related situation in Israel, well baby clinic nurses
dealing with a large number of traumatized and highly distressed infants, toddlers and their …

Nature adventure rehabilitation for combat-related posttraumatic chronic stress disorder: A randomized control trial

M Gelkopf, I Hasson-Ohayon, M Bikman, S Kravetz - Psychiatry research, 2013 - Elsevier
Chronic combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (CR-PTSD) is a condition with many
treatment barriers. Nature Adventure Rehabilitation (NAR) as a second line or as a …

The relationship between exposure to terror through the media, coping strategies and resources, and distress and secondary traumatization.

H Ben-Zur, S Gil, Y Shamshins - International Journal of Stress …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
The study's main aim was to examine secondary traumatization among Israeli students. A
sample of 203 university students in Israel, 41 men (20%) and 162 women (80%), aged 23.9 …

Predictors of individual, community and national resiliencies of Israeli Jews and Arabs

H Marciano, S Kimhi, Y Eshel - International Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The contribution of individual characteristics to predicting individual, community and national
resilience of Israeli Jews and Arabs was investigated. Psychological resilience refers to …

The mental health impact of the October 7th terror attack on Jews and Arabs in Israel: A nationwide prospective study

Y Groweiss, C Blank, S Hamdan, Y Neria, Y Levi-Belz - Psychiatry research, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction On October 7, 2023, Israeli citizens came under an unprecedented
terrorist attack that impacted the entire country. Recent research has begun to document the …