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
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Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
MeSH terms
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Adaptation, Psychological / physiology
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Adolescent
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Arousal* / physiology
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Child
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Child, Preschool
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Defense Mechanisms
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Humans
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Internal-External Control
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Life Change Events*
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Psychophysiology
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Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / physiopathology
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Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / psychology*
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Terrorism / psychology*