Sexual assault (SA) is a common and deleterious form of trauma. Over 40 years of research
on its impact has suggested that SA has particularly severe effects on a variety of forms of …

Sexual assault (SA) is a common form of trauma that is associated with numerous
deleterious outcomes. Understanding the relative prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses in …

“Profoundly eye-opening.… Hirsch and Khan present a novel model for explaining and
responding to campus sexual assault.”—Claire M. Renzetti, Science Research has shown …

Evolution has endowed all humans with a continuum of innate, hard-wired, automatically
activated defense behaviors, termed the defense cascade. Arousal is the first step in …

A better understanding of psychological trauma is fundamental to clinical psychology.
Following traumatic event (s), a clinically significant number of people develop symptoms …

The relationship between a reported history of trauma and dissociative symptoms has been
explained in 2 conflicting ways. Pathological dissociation has been conceptualized as a …

A number of autobiographical memory theories and clinical theories of posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) make claims that are different from standard views of memory and have …

The author reviews research showing that repetitive thought (RT) can have constructive or
unconstructive consequences. The main unconstructive consequences of RT are (a) …

A review of recent research on cognitive processing indicates that biases in attention,
memory, and interpretation, as well as repetitive negative thoughts, are common across …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a significant source of death and permanent disability,
contributing to nearly one-third of all injury related deaths in the United States and exacting …