Many women who have emergency cesarean births appraise their births negatively or even as ‘traumatic.” While other women who have them appraise their birth experience quite positively. The researcher set out to investigate ...

Neurological research demonstrates that while trauma undermines prefrontal cortical functioning, mindfulness strengthens it. A discussion on the nature of trauma is provided which includes neurobiology, attachment theory, ...

Trauma is faced by people every single day and can impede many different implications for the sufferer making each experience very much an individual reaction. Trauma experienced during childhood is considered to have ...

Trauma was traditionally regarded as an event that happened to a person. However, this understanding has evolved over the years into the appreciation of trauma as the embodied human experience of feeling unsafe that continues ...

This thesis aims to describe negative social responses individuals receive following traumatic experiences and illustrates the impact they can have through a close examination of relevant literature along with several ...

More than 60% of students have experienced one or more traumatic events in their life by the time they reach 17 years of age (Blodgett & Lanigan, 2018; Langley, Gonzalez, Sugar, Solis & Jaycox, 2015; Holmes, Levy, Smith, ...

This autoethnographic thesis is an account of my journey with chronic pelvic pain (CPP) and endometriosis. The study incorporates current literature that highlights the complexities of these conditions, and the impact that ...

This research project examines the importance of understanding, creating, and providing trauma-informed care practices in counselling agencies in Canada. It will highlight and deepen the discussion surrounding the importance ...

This thesis is a qualitative study exploring psychotherapists’ experiences of how to cultivate earned secure attachment in complex trauma clients. The study also explores therapeutic stances and interventions that facilitate ...

This capstone examines the literature on treatment of children who have experienced complex trauma; specifically, the repeated maltreatment from an attachment figure. It explores how ongoing adverse experiences in childhood ...