Trauma Archives

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Child life services: What they are and how to find them

October 10, 2022 | Written by therapist.com team

Learn what child life is, where you can find child life specialists, and how your child can benefit from child life services in stressful settings.

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Children Grief Parents Trauma

Group therapy

October 13, 2022 | Written by therapist.com team

Group therapy is an affordable and effective option for many. It can help people decipher their emotions, develop coping skills, and more.

Topics:

Addiction Affordable Therapy Anxiety Group Therapy Trauma

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Dissociation: Symptoms, causes, types, and treatments

October 13, 2022 | Written by therapist.com team

Dissociation is a mental health disorder symptom that may cause memory loss, feeling detached from the body, and a lost sense of reality. Help is available now.

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Depersonalization Disorders Dissociation Dissociative Identity Disorder Stress Trauma

Cognitive processing therapy (CPT): Treatment for PTSD

October 13, 2022 | Written by therapist.com team

Learn about cognitive processing therapy, how it works, and its benefits and effectiveness for PTSD and other trauma-related conditions.

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Cognitive Processing Therapy Complex PTSD Processing Skills PTSD Trauma

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Childhood trauma and repressed memories

January 4, 2023 | Written by therapist.com team

Forgetting details from childhood is a normal part of aging, but trauma we experienced as children may impact our memories more deeply.

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Childhood Children Memory PTSD Trauma

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Religious trauma: Signs, symptoms, causes, and treatment

January 5, 2023 | Written by therapist.com team

Learn about religious trauma and spiritual abuse, how they affect mental health, and how you can start healing.

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Abuse Religion Religious Trauma Spirituality Trauma

Generational trauma, epigenetics, and mental health

January 27, 2023 | Written by therapist.com team

Research suggests the trauma of past generations may be passed down and can even alter our genes. Learn more about how this can affect mental health.

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Epigenetics Family Generational Trauma PTSD Trauma

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Healing from the trauma of gun violence

February 3, 2023 | Written by Amye Archer, MFA | Featuring Tasnim Sulaiman, LPC

Gun violence survivors carry the pain of past experience and the risk of retraumatization. Bruce Nash and Patience Murray have found ways to live with both.

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Grief Gun Violence Loss PTSD Trauma

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Complex posttraumatic stress disorder (c-PTSD): Symptoms, causes, and treatments

February 3, 2023 | Written by therapist.com team

Wondering what complex PTSD is? Learn about how repeated trauma can cause the mental health condition to develop, how it differs to PTSD, and how it is treated.

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Abuse Complex PTSD Disorders PTSD Trauma

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Race and healing: Expanding the conversation, part 1

February 10, 2023 | Published by Psychotherapy Networker | Featuring S. Kent Butler, PhD; Gail Parker, PhD; Monnica Williams, PhD; and Zachary Taylor, MA, LPC, NCC

In part one of a two-part panel discussion, a frank discussion between therapists as they share thoughts on addressing race in and out of the office.

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African Americans For Therapists Psychotherapy Networker Race Race-Based Traumatic Stress Trauma