Despite the availability of empirically supported treatments (ESTs) for posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD), relatively little is known regarding these treatments' mechanisms of …

Although trauma-focused psychotherapy (TF psychotherapy) is the treatment of choice for
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), up to one half of patients do not respond to this …

Trauma exposure is one of the most important and prevalent risk factors for mental and
physical ill-health. Prolonged or excessive stress exposure increases the risk of a wide …

People who experience trauma and develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at
increased risk for poor health. One mechanism that could explain this risk is accelerated …

Although stress and adversity are largely universal experiences, people exposed to greater
hardship are at increased risk for negative health consequences. Recent studies identify …

Stressful life events have been linked to declining health, and inflammation has been
proposed as a physiological mechanism that might explain this association. Using 828 …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is linked to both altered physiological functioning and
poorer cardiovascular health outcomes, including an increased risk for cardiovascular …

People with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experience a wide array of symptoms,
often accompanied by significant functional and quality of life impairments. Evidence-based …

Objective Stress and stressful events are associated with poorer health; however, there are
multiple ways to conceptualize and measure stress and stress responses. One physiological …

The current study presents and preliminarily tests a brief, theory driven intervention
designed to target social connectivity as a transdiagnostic mechanism of health. We tested …