Trauma and Victimization

A Model of Psychological Adaptation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8913729
AutoresI Lisa McCann (The Traumatic Stress Institute,South Windsor,CT, autor de correspondencia), David K Sakheim (Private Practice, South Windsor, CT), Daniel J Abrahamson (The Traumatic Stress Institute South Windsor, CT)
Año1988
Volumen16
Número4
Páginas531-594
Fecha de publicación1988-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Counseling Psychologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0011-0000 • E-ISSN: 1552-3861
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0011000088164002
OpenAlexW2134608473
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas65
Referencias citadas111

The topics of victimization and traumatic stress have become focal issues within the last two decades. This article synthesizes theoretical and empirical findings about psychological responses to traumatization across survivors of rape, childhood sexual or physical abuse, domestic violence, crime, disasters, and the Vietnam war. Five major categories of response, emotional, cognitive, biological, behavioral, and interpersonal, are described. Based on these findings, the authors present a new theoretical model for understanding individual variations in victim responses. In this model, they propose a complex relation among traumatic experiences, cognitive schemas within the areas of safety, trust, power, esteem, and intimacy, and psychological adaptation. Implications for assessment, treatment intervention, and further research within the area of traumatic stress are discussed

Child abuse · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Interpersonal communication · Intervention (counseling · Physical abuse · Poison control · Psychiatry · Psychological abuse · Sexual abuse · Traumatic memories · Traumatic stress · Child Abuse and Trauma · Clinical Psychology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology