As a result of indirect exposure to the specific traumatic occurrence via close contact with the survivor, individuals may experience similar symptoms as the survivor.
Last season NBC aired a program called "The Game of Silence" in which 4 best friends who once served time in a juvenile detention center as a result of a well-intentioned but reckless caper are reunited by a traumatic occurrence.
Most participants indicated that their involvement in a traumatic occurrence was a springboard for growth that enabled them to develop new perspectives on life and living.
Though it is recognized that PTSD can manifest from either a single-event or chronic trauma [ 18], many conflict-related PTSD accounts observe a subsequent return to a "normal" environment after the traumatic occurrence – such as a soldier returning to peaceful civilian life [ 3, 15].
The responses, reactions and abilities of those immediately responsible for a child influence the child's ability to cope with a traumatic occurrence.
If you do things halfway right and there are no unforeseen traumatic occurrences, like crucial losses or undue stresses, chances are good — better than 50-50 — thet the child of a depressed parent will grow up to be a nondepressed adult.
As McCourt sharply observes, Stonewall, "like the Civil War in the history of the Republic, provided the dividing line and break in the history of queer experience, and which, like all traumatic occurrences, rendered the beliefs and assumptions of the preceding generation naïve, complacent and obsolete in the eyes of their successors".
PTSD follows traumatic occurrences outside the range of common human experience such as violent physical assaults, torture, accidents, rape or natural disasters and is characterized by a typical symptom pattern of intrusions, persistence of trauma, relevant stimuli avoidance, emotional numbing and physiological hyperarousal.
The study findings emphasize the simultaneous presence of resilience and post-traumatic responses, the targeted occurrence of traumatic events, and the importance of local contexts in explanatory frameworks of war trauma.
Hanks RA, Wood DL, Millis S, Harrison-Felix C, Pierce CA, Rosenthal M, Bushnik T, High WM Jr, Kreutzer J. Violent traumatic brain injury: occurrence, patient characteristics, and risk factors from the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems project.
In univariate analysis, the variables that have emerged as risk factors of mortality were: sex, length of hospitalization, severity scores (APACHE III, IGS III, OSF), the Charlson comorbidity score adjusted to age, traumatic pathology, the occurrence of nosocomial infection, septic shock, hemodynamic instability, neurological worsening, use of vasopressors, and tracheostomy.
