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Trauma theory
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Trauma theory

Sandra L Bloom
Humanising Mental Health Care in Australia, pp 3-30
2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429021923-1

Abstract

American Psychiatric Association Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Opiate Withdrawal Syndrome Emotional Numbing Traumatic Re-enactment Anorexia Nervosa Intergenerational Transmission AOD Trauma Informed Care Model Treatment Resistant Depression Violated Stress Induced Analgesia Chronic Hyperarousal Self-harming Behaviour Human Stress Response Freeze Component Inescapable Shock Interhemispheric Communication Emotional Memory National Child Traumatic Stress Network Moral Injury State Dependent Learning Fear Conditioning Fight Flight Freeze Response Flashbulb Memories
Across the millennia, the human brain has evolved to function as an integrated whole, with mind and body acting in concert, constantly adapting to a wide range of ecological challenges. The complex physiological mechanisms that have developed to accommodate this enormous flexibility are generically known as the human stress response. In the last several decades, the study of traumatic stress – capturing the most extreme mobilisation of the stress response – has garnered a significant body of knowledge and research.

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