Threat and trauma: an overview

New Dir Youth Dev. 2003 Summer:(98):11-28. doi: 10.1002/yd.42.

Abstract

Common responses after exposure to threat include reexperiencing the event, intrusive thoughts and images, hyperarousal, avoidance and numbing, a sense of a foreshortened future, and shattered assumptions about control and safety.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Psychological / physiology
  • Adolescent
  • Arousal* / physiology
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Defense Mechanisms
  • Humans
  • Internal-External Control
  • Life Change Events*
  • Psychophysiology
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / physiopathology
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / psychology*
  • Terrorism / psychology*