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What Is Trauma?
1 what Is Trauma? The term psychological trauma has been applied in so many contexts byso many people that it has lost some of its original meaning. Often,traumais used to refer both to negative events that produce distress and tothe distress itself. Technically, trauma refers only to the event, not the reac-tion, and should be reserved for major events that are psychologically over-whelming for an individual. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of MentalDisorders,4th edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR;American PsychiatricAssociation [APA], 2000) specifically defines a trauma asdirect personal experience of an event that involves actual or threatened deathor serious injury, or other threat to one s physical integrity.
hostage, terrorist attacks, torture, disasters, severe automobile accidents, and life-threatening illnesses, as well as witnessing death or serious injury by vio-lent assault, accidents, war, or disaster. Childhood sexual abuse is included even if it does not involve threatened or actual violence or injury. 3 01-Briere.qxd 2/15/2006 1:39 PM Page 3
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