Psychological trauma and the adult survivor: Theory, therapy, and transformation.

By L. McCann, L. Pearlman. 2015

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology

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1. David M. Clark
2. E. Staub
3. A. Ehlers
4. D. Burton
5. J. Briere
6. Lisa M. Hooper
7. M. Arvay
8. Karen W. Saakvitne

Citations in the corpus

• Shared Trauma: The Therapist's Increased Vulnerability (2002, background): “Vicarious traumatization refers to the transformation of your inner self as a result of your empathic engagement with traumatized clients in the context of a helping relationship (McCann and Pearlman, 1990a; Pearlman and Saakvitne, 1995).”
• The Relationships Between Childhood Sexual Abuse, Social Anxiety, and Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Women (2005, background): “Similarly, McCann & Pearlman (1990) have suggested some of the beliefs, assumptions, and schemata that are altered as a result of a traumatic experience.”
• Psychological Adjustment, Coping, and Emotion Regulation as Predictors of Posttraumatic Growth (2004, background): “Finally, since traumatic events by definition are out of the ordinary, people cannot use their prior experiences to make sense of these events (McCann & Perlman, 1990).”
• A prospective investigation of the role of cognitive factors in persistent posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after physical or sexual assault. (2001, background): “…self and the world, to the nature of the traumatic memory, or to both maladaptive beliefs and the nature of the memory (Janoff-Bulman 1985, 1989; McCann & Pearlman, 1990; Epstein, 1991; Roth & Newman, 1991; Foa & Riggs, 1993; Resick & Schnicke, 1993; Brewin, Dalgleish, & Joseph, 1996; Horowitz,…”
• Male Adolescents: Sexual Victimization and Subsequent Sexual Abuse (2003, background): “…1998), substance abuse (Ruzak, Polusny & Abueg, 1998), trauma related guilt (Kubany & Manke, 1995) and, most relevant to this project, a focus on sexual victimization (Briere, 1997, Brom, Kleber & Defares, 1989; Lanktree & Briere, 1995; McCann & Pearlman, 1990; Meadows & Foa, 1998, 1999, 2000).”
• Expanding the Discussion Regarding Parentification and Its Varied Outcomes: Implications for Mental Health Research and Practice (2007, background): “Many adverse events have been documented and empirically studied among trauma researchers (Liotti, 1992; McCann & Pearlman, 1990; Pearlman & Saakvitne, 1995; Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1995, 1996; Tedeschi et al., 1998; van der Kolk, 1996) and researchers and clinicians (Anderson, 1999; Boszormenyi-Nagy &…”
• Thriving after Trauma: The Experience of Parents of Murdered Children (2002, unknown): “…psychosomatic disturbances (American Psychiatric Association, 1994; Krupnick & Horowitz, 1981; Krystal, 1968; Lifton & Olson, 1976; Lindemann, 1944; McCann & Pearlman, 1990; McFarlane & van der Kolk, 1996a; Niederland, 1968; Rinear, 1988; Rynearson, 1984; Scurfield, 1985; Stolorow, 1999; van der…”
• Vicarious Trauma: The Impact on Solicitors of Exposure to Traumatic Material: (2008, background): “McCann and Pearlman (1990b) suggest that there are unique aspects of working with survivors of sexual abuse that increase the risk of trauma workers developing vicarious trauma.”
• Treating adult survivors of severe childhood abuse and neglect: Further development of an integrative model (2002, background): “As noted by various authors (Courtois, 1991; Linehan, 1993; McCann & Pearlman, 1990; van der Hart, Steele, Boon, & Brown, 1993), therapy for severe abuse-related difficulties should generally proceed in a step-wise fashion, with early therapeutic attention paid more to the assessment and…”
• Healing, Reconciliation, Forgiving and the Prevention of Violence after Genocide or Mass Killing: An Intervention and Its Experimental Evaluation in Rwanda (2005, methodology): “People feel vulnerable, the world looks dangerous to them, and other people, especially those outside their group, seem untrustworthy (McCann & Pearlman, 1990a; Staub, 1998).”
• Notes on Cultures of Violence, Cultures of Caring and Peace, and the Fulfillment of Basic Human Needs (2003, background): “…of needs, a number of psychologists and other social and behavioral scientists have proposed what is usually referred to as human needs theories (Burton, 1990; Christie, 1997; Deci & Ryan, 1985; Kelman, 1990; McCann & Pearlman, 1990; Murray, 1938; Pearlman & Saakvitne, 1995, among others).”