Wendy D'Andrea

TL;DR: Research is summarized that suggests directions for broadening current diagnostic conceptualizations for victimized children, focusing on findings regarding victimization, the prevalence of a variety of psychiatric symptoms related to affect and behavior dysregulation, disturbances of consciousness and cognition, alterations in attribution and schema, and interpersonal impairment.

TL;DR: It was concluded that growth following trauma may entail the strengthening of character and small, but positive associations among the number of potentially traumatic events experienced and a number of cognitive and interpersonal character strengths are found.

TL;DR: The goal of this literature review is to extend the literature linking both chronic trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder to adverse health outcomes by examining current literature suggesting that a single trauma may also have negative consequences for physical health.

TL;DR: This work examined autonomic responses to a stressful stimulus using analytic approaches which have been previously used to examine defensive responses before: heart rate acceleration, heart rate deceleration, and skin conductance response in a sample of trauma-exposed college students to suggest heterogeneity of stress responses within individuals with PTSD and with trauma exposure.

TL;DR: Neuroimaging research investigating self-referential processing (SRP), that is, how the authors respond to stimuli that reference ourselves, is reviewed, to outline a conceptual and methodological framework for future SRP research that briefly applies toward understanding certain psychological and neurological disorders symptomatically associated with abnormal SRP.