Constance J Dalenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1660319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constance J Dalenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constance J |
| FAMILY NAME | Dalenberg |
| SIGNATURE | DALENBERG C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Alliant University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9577-6060 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Interpersonal Guilt Rating Scale 15 Item Self-Report Version (IGRS-15s)
Guilt is associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and suicidality, all of which are prevalent problems among active-duty and veteran United States military personnel. Most research studying these associations utilize trauma-related guilt conceptualizations. However, researchers have developed and begun testing the Interpersonal Guilt Rating Scale-15 Item Self-Report Version (IGRS-15s), which has shown strong psychometric …
Nonconsensual sexual media sharing
Utility of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 in differentiating genuine from feigned dissociative identity disorder
Genuine DID patients can be differentiated from simulators. Simulators appear to overweight symptoms of paranoia and alienation relative to mood and somatic symptoms. Further research is needed to generalize these findings to male and non-White populations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Relationship of abuse by religious authorities to depression, religiosity, and child physical abuse history in a college sample
Religious authorities often play complex roles in social and family life. These complexities then may produce parallel complexities in the patterns of symptoms. The intensity of the trauma from abuse by religious authorities may make it more difficult to study, treat, and recover from sexual abuse. Additional research is needed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Contributing factors predicting nightmares in children
The predictive power of anxiety, dissociation, vagal tone, and trauma history was not entirely due to their overlap, as shown by uniquely significant beta weights in the prediction of distress. Treatment procedures with multiple intervention points targeting physiological and psychological sources of nightmare distress may be warranted. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Advantages and psychometric validation of proximal intensive assessments of patient-reported outcomes collected in daily life
Reality versus fantasy
We respond to Lynn et al.'s (2014) comments on our review (Dalenberg et al., 2012) demonstrating the superiority of the trauma model (TM) over the fantasy model (FM) in explaining the trauma-dissociation relationship. Lynn et al. conceded that our meta-analytic results support the TM hypothesis that trauma exposure is a causal risk factor for the development of dissociation. Although Lynn et al. suggested that our meta-analyses were selective, we…
Dissociation in posttraumatic stress disorder part I
Since Janet wrote about dissociation in the early 1900s, the relationship between traumatic stress and dissociation has been discussed and debated in the fields of psychology and psychiatry. In the last 25 years, research has been conducted that allows empirical examination of this relationship and the question of how dissociative symptoms are related to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). After defining the types of dissociative experiences th…
Dissociation in posttraumatic stress disorder part II
Evaluation of the evidence for the trauma and fantasy models of dissociation
The relationship between a reported history of trauma and dissociative symptoms has been explained in 2 conflicting ways. Pathological dissociation has been conceptualized as a response to antecedent traumatic stress and/or severe psychological adversity. Others have proposed that dissociation makes individuals prone to fantasy, thereby engendering confabulated memories of trauma. We examine data related to a series of 8 contrasting predictions b…
Development and validation of a brief self-report measure of trauma exposure
Although information about individuals' exposure to highly stressful events such as traumatic stressors is often very useful for clinicians and researchers, available measures are too long and complex for use in many settings. The Trauma History Screen (THS) was developed to provide a very brief and easy-to-complete self-report measure of exposure to high magnitude stressor (HMS) events and of events associated with significant and persisting pos…
Trauma exposure and traumatic symptoms in deaf adults
Recovered Memory and the Daubert Criteria
Research during the past two decades has firmly established the reliability of the phenomenon of recovered memory. This review first highlights the strongest evidence for the phenomenon itself and discusses the survey, experimental, and biological evidence for the varying mechanisms that may underlie the phenomenon. Routes to traumatic amnesia from dissociative detachment (loss of emotional content leading to loss of factual content) and from dis…
A Conceptual Framework for the Impact of Traumatic Experiences
This conceptual framework for the effects of traumatic experiences addresses what makes an experience traumatic, what psychological responses are expected following such events, and why symptoms persist after the traumatic experience is over. Three elements are considered necessary for an event to be traumatizing: The event must be experienced as extremely negative, uncontrollable, and sudden. The initial core responses to trauma include reexperi…
Countertransference and the Treatment of Trauma
The Relationship between Training of Mental Health Professionals and the Reporting of Ritual Abuse and Multiple Personality Disorder Symptomatology
With only a scant amount of empirical research available, there is little information to guide the clinician in assessing clients who present with a history of MPD or childhood ritual abuse. The authors surveyed 433 mental health professionals in San Diego County, California employing a 50-item questionnaire. Concerns of the investigators included whether (a) large numbers of ritual child abuse allegations are generated by a small number of thera…
A reexamination of developmental changes in causal attributions
The current study examined young children's use of the presence or absence of extrinsic reward to make inferences about the intrinsic motivation of another person. Previous research indicates that most kindergartners do not use a discounting heuristic, but it was hypothesized that they may have misinterpreted the questions asked. Kindergarten, second, and fourth graders were presented stories about children who were rewarded or not rewarded for p…
Evaluation of the evidence for the trauma and fantasy models of dissociation
The relationship between a reported history of trauma and dissociative symptoms has been explained in 2 conflicting ways. Pathological dissociation has been conceptualized as a response to antecedent traumatic stress and/or severe psychological adversity. Others have proposed that dissociation makes individuals prone to fantasy, thereby engendering confabulated memories of trauma. We examine data related to a series of 8 contrasting predictions b…
A reexamination of developmental changes in causal attributions
The current study examined young children's use of the presence or absence of extrinsic reward to make inferences about the intrinsic motivation of another person. Previous research indicates that most kindergartners do not use a discounting heuristic, but it was hypothesized that they may have misinterpreted the questions asked. Kindergarten, second, and fourth graders were presented stories about children who were rewarded or not rewarded for p…
A reexamination of developmental changes in causal attributions
The current study examined young children's use of the presence or absence of extrinsic reward to make inferences about the intrinsic motivation of another person. Previous research indicates that most kindergartners do not use a discounting heuristic, but it was hypothesized that they may have misinterpreted the questions asked. Kindergarten, second, and fourth graders were presented stories about children who were rewarded or not rewarded for p…
The Relationship between Training of Mental Health Professionals and the Reporting of Ritual Abuse and Multiple Personality Disorder Symptomatology
With only a scant amount of empirical research available, there is little information to guide the clinician in assessing clients who present with a history of MPD or childhood ritual abuse. The authors surveyed 433 mental health professionals in San Diego County, California employing a 50-item questionnaire. Concerns of the investigators included whether (a) large numbers of ritual child abuse allegations are generated by a small number of thera…
A Conceptual Framework for the Impact of Traumatic Experiences
This conceptual framework for the effects of traumatic experiences addresses what makes an experience traumatic, what psychological responses are expected following such events, and why symptoms persist after the traumatic experience is over. Three elements are considered necessary for an event to be traumatizing: The event must be experienced as extremely negative, uncontrollable, and sudden. The initial core responses to trauma include reexperi…
Countertransference and the Treatment of Trauma
Recovered Memory and the Daubert Criteria
Research during the past two decades has firmly established the reliability of the phenomenon of recovered memory. This review first highlights the strongest evidence for the phenomenon itself and discusses the survey, experimental, and biological evidence for the varying mechanisms that may underlie the phenomenon. Routes to traumatic amnesia from dissociative detachment (loss of emotional content leading to loss of factual content) and from dis…
Development and validation of a brief self-report measure of trauma exposure
Although information about individuals' exposure to highly stressful events such as traumatic stressors is often very useful for clinicians and researchers, available measures are too long and complex for use in many settings. The Trauma History Screen (THS) was developed to provide a very brief and easy-to-complete self-report measure of exposure to high magnitude stressor (HMS) events and of events associated with significant and persisting pos…
Trauma exposure and traumatic symptoms in deaf adults
Dissociation in posttraumatic stress disorder part I
Since Janet wrote about dissociation in the early 1900s, the relationship between traumatic stress and dissociation has been discussed and debated in the fields of psychology and psychiatry. In the last 25 years, research has been conducted that allows empirical examination of this relationship and the question of how dissociative symptoms are related to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). After defining the types of dissociative experiences th…
Dissociation in posttraumatic stress disorder part II
Evaluation of the evidence for the trauma and fantasy models of dissociation
The relationship between a reported history of trauma and dissociative symptoms has been explained in 2 conflicting ways. Pathological dissociation has been conceptualized as a response to antecedent traumatic stress and/or severe psychological adversity. Others have proposed that dissociation makes individuals prone to fantasy, thereby engendering confabulated memories of trauma. We examine data related to a series of 8 contrasting predictions b…
Reality versus fantasy
We respond to Lynn et al.'s (2014) comments on our review (Dalenberg et al., 2012) demonstrating the superiority of the trauma model (TM) over the fantasy model (FM) in explaining the trauma-dissociation relationship. Lynn et al. conceded that our meta-analytic results support the TM hypothesis that trauma exposure is a causal risk factor for the development of dissociation. Although Lynn et al. suggested that our meta-analyses were selective, we…
Advantages and psychometric validation of proximal intensive assessments of patient-reported outcomes collected in daily life
Relationship of abuse by religious authorities to depression, religiosity, and child physical abuse history in a college sample
Religious authorities often play complex roles in social and family life. These complexities then may produce parallel complexities in the patterns of symptoms. The intensity of the trauma from abuse by religious authorities may make it more difficult to study, treat, and recover from sexual abuse. Additional research is needed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Contributing factors predicting nightmares in children
The predictive power of anxiety, dissociation, vagal tone, and trauma history was not entirely due to their overlap, as shown by uniquely significant beta weights in the prediction of distress. Treatment procedures with multiple intervention points targeting physiological and psychological sources of nightmare distress may be warranted. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Utility of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 in differentiating genuine from feigned dissociative identity disorder
Genuine DID patients can be differentiated from simulators. Simulators appear to overweight symptoms of paranoia and alienation relative to mood and somatic symptoms. Further research is needed to generalize these findings to male and non-White populations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
The Interpersonal Guilt Rating Scale 15 Item Self-Report Version (IGRS-15s)
Guilt is associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and suicidality, all of which are prevalent problems among active-duty and veteran United States military personnel. Most research studying these associations utilize trauma-related guilt conceptualizations. However, researchers have developed and begun testing the Interpersonal Guilt Rating Scale-15 Item Self-Report Version (IGRS-15s), which has shown strong psychometric …
Nonconsensual sexual media sharing
Psychology (17 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (5 works)