Posttraumatic stress disorder and positive memories: Clinical considerations

AA Contractor, LA Brown, SV Caldas… - Journal of Anxiety …, 2018 - Elsevier
Encoding and retrieval difficulties, and avoidance of both traumatic and positive memories,
are associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. However, most PTSD …

Factors related to positive memory count among trauma-exposed individuals: A sco** review

AA Contractor, SV Caldas, M Dolan… - Trauma, Violence, & …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
To examine the existing knowledge base on trauma experiences and positive memories, we
conducted a sco** review of trauma and post-trauma factors related to positive memory …

Participant, rater, and computer measures of coherence in posttraumatic stress disorder.

DC Rubin, SA Deffler, CM Ogle… - Journal of Abnormal …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
We examined the coherence of trauma memories in a trauma-exposed community sample of
30 adults with and 30 without posttraumatic stress disorder. The groups had similar …

Coaching in maternal reminiscing with preschoolers leads to elaborative and coherent personal narratives in early adolescence

E Reese, L Macfarlane, H McAnally… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - Elsevier
This long-term follow-up of an early childhood training study (Growing Memories) to promote
elaborative reminiscing tested continued effects on mother–child reminiscing and on …

Coherence, disorganization, and fragmentation in traumatic memory reconsidered: A response to Rubin et al.(2016).

CR Brewin - 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Although clinical theories of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) claim that in this condition
trauma memories tend to be disorganized and fragmented, this has been disputed by some …

The nature of narrative coherence: An empirical approach

JM Adler, TEA Waters, J Poh, S Seitz - Journal of Research in Personality, 2018 - Elsevier
Coherence represents a foundational element of personal narratives, but the empirical
nature of narrative coherence remains elusive. The present study applied an inductive …

Longitudinal changes in trauma narratives over the first year and associations with co** and mental health

JA Booker, R Fivush, ME Graci, H Heitz… - Journal of affective …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background The structure of trauma memories impacts mental health, but questions remain
about how structure changes with time and may shape co** with trauma. This study …

Characteristics of memories for near-death experiences

LE Moore, B Greyson - Consciousness and Cognition, 2017 - Elsevier
Near-death experiences are vivid, life-changing experiences occurring to people who come
close to death. Because some of their features, such as enhanced cognition despite …

An examination of trauma narratives: Narrative rumination, self-reflection, and identity in young adulthood

KA Marin, A Shkreli - Journal of adolescence, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction Trauma has the potential to challenge the self and identity development in ways
unlike other personal experiences and, undoubtedly, necessitates meaning-making. The …

Examining the factor structure of narrative meaning-making for stressful events and relations with psychological distress

ME Graci, AL Watts, R Fivush - Memory, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This study examined the underlying factor structure of 15 narrative meaning-making indices
for narratives of stressful events, and explored the incremental validity of the narrative factor …