European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation最新文献

{"title":"Developing a model of experiential avoidance based on childhood trauma and victimization, mediated by insecure attachment styles","authors":"Mohamad Hatami Nejad ,&nbsp;Esmaeil Sadri Damirchi ,&nbsp;Masoud Sadeghi ,&nbsp;Mohammadreza Noroozi Homayoon","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100513","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100513","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The aim of this study was to develop a model of experiential avoidance based on childhood trauma and victimization, with insecure attachment styles as a mediator.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>This was a descriptive-correlational study using structural equation modeling. The study population consisted of all high school students in Khorramabad city in the academic year 2023–2024. A cluster random sampling method was employed. The sample size was 220, considering the possibility of sample attrition. The research instruments included the Illinois Bully Scale, the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II), the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, and the Attachment Style Questionnaire.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Insecure attachment style partially mediated the relationship between predictor and criterion variables. Moreover, childhood trauma and victimization collectively accounted for 70 % of the variance in insecure attachment style, and childhood trauma, victimization, and insecure attachment style collectively explained 69 % of the variance in experiential avoidance.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion and Conclusion</h3><div>Therefore, it is recommended that schools implement interventions and training to improve childhood trauma, victimization, and insecure attachment in order to control experiential avoidance among students.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":29932,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation","volume":"9 1","pages":"Article 100513"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143163731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Decreased PTSD symptoms following a lucid dreaming workshop: A randomized controlled study","authors":"Garret Yount ,&nbsp;Tadas Stumbrys ,&nbsp;Sitara Taddeo ,&nbsp;Cedric Cannard ,&nbsp;Arnaud Delorme ,&nbsp;Michael Kriegsman ,&nbsp;Helané Wahbeh","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100510","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100510","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Recent investigations into lucid dreaming—a state where individuals achieve self-reflective awareness while asleep and can undertake deliberate actions—suggest potential healing benefits. A pilot study showed significant PTSD symptom reduction among participants following an online lucid dreaming workshop. The workshop, spanning 22 hours over six consecutive days, taught participants lucid dreaming induction techniques and how to use lucid dreaming to transform their nightmares and integrate their trauma.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We replicated this study using a randomized controlled design. Adults experiencing chronic PTSD symptoms were randomly assigned to either an active workshop group (<em>n</em> = 49) or a wait-list control group (<em>n</em> = 50).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Roughly half of the participants in both the workshop and control groups experienced at least one lucid dream during the workshop period. Among these, 63 % of workshop participants versus 38 % of controls achieved a healing lucid dream, implementing a pre-devised healing plan. The workshop group exhibited significant reductions in PTSD symptoms and nightmare distress compared to the control group, with sustained improvements at one-month follow-up. Additionally, improved well-being and diminished negative emotions were observed among workshop participants compared to controls. No significant correlation was found between lucid dreams and reductions in PTSD and nightmare symptoms.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The workshop demonstrates efficacy as a viable alternative for individuals with PTSD.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":29932,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation","volume":"9 1","pages":"Article 100510"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143163879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Addressing students’ traumatic experiences and impact of social supports: Scoping review","authors":"Amos Nnaemeka Amedu,&nbsp;Veronica Dwarika,&nbsp;Vera Victor Aigbodion","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100512","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100512","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The exposure of students to traumatic events, including bullying and various forms of physical and sexual assaults, has a detrimental effect on their cognitive functioning. This assertion is supported by several recent review studies. Nevertheless, social support has been identified as a significant factor in alleviating the negative consequences of such traumatic experiences. In contrast, some review reports have highlighted a gap in the literature regarding the exploration of students' traumatic experiences and the potential role of social support in mitigating these effects.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This review aims to address the existing research gap by examining the traumatic experiences of students and evaluating the role of social support in alleviating the negative effects of these experiences on their academic outcomes.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>A literature search was conducted in online databases such as Google Scholar, PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, PsychINFO, and ScienceDirect. The search result yielded 87 articles using carefully developed search terms. Based on the setup inclusion and exclusion criteria, 59 articles were excluded, and 28 articles were included. Our data extraction strictly followed the Preferred Reporting Item for Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Extension for Scoping Review (PRISMA-SCR).</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>This study found that the location of the schools and students’ levels are the significant factors that influence the types of traumatic events students experience. In the basic education level, bullying, teasing, victimization, and maltreatment were common experiences; in higher education, violence, sexual assault, and physical assault were common traumatic events students experience. Students residing in areas affected by conflict, such as war zones, encounter significantly more severe and distressing traumatic experiences than those in stable, non-conflict environments. Furthermore, this study found that social support serves as a protective factor against the negative impacts of trauma, facilitates recovery from the psychological aftermath of such experiences, and enhances the overall quality of life for these students. This review has highlighted several methodological limitations, including the prevalence of small sample sizes, a lack of longitudinal data, an excessive dependence on self-reported measures, and a dearth of experimental research. We recommended that future investigations prioritize the assessment of trauma-informed school interventions across diverse cultural settings, employing longitudinal studies and randomized controlled trials. Additionally, future reviewers should expand the scope of this analysis by incorporating studies published in various foreign languages.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":29932,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation","volume":"9 1","pages":"Article 100512"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143163667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Feeling detached: The central role of detachment in a network study of posttraumatic stress symptoms in Public Safety Personnel","authors":"Blake A.E. Boehme ,&nbsp;Omid V. Ebrahimi ,&nbsp;R. Nicholas Carleton ,&nbsp;Gordon J.G. Asmundson","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100505","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100505","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Due to the nature of their work, Public Safety Personnel (PSP; e.g., firefighters, paramedics, police officers) are frequently exposed to potentially psychological traumatic events (PPTE) and are at increased risk of developing posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) compared to the general population. To date, there are a limited number of published studies that have used the statistical tools of network analysis to examine PTSS in PSP, typically relying on small, homogenous samples.</div></div><div><h3>Basic procedures</h3><div>The current study used a large (<em>n</em> = 5,319) and diverse sample of PSP to estimate a network of PTSS and exploratory graph analysis to assess alternative structures of symptom clustering, compared to traditional latent models.</div></div><div><h3>Main findings</h3><div>The results of the analyses estimated two symptom clusters which differed from most latent models of PTSS. <em>Re</em>-experiencing and avoidance symptoms clustered together, instead of in two clusters. Similarly, hyperarousal symptoms (hypervigilance, sleep disturbance, startle reflex, concentration difficulties) clustered in a single community instead of two or three clusters in many latent models of PTSS. The symptom of detachment played the most central role in the network and acted as a bridge symptom between numerous clusters of symptoms. The least central symptom was amnesia, which also had the most inconsistent pattern of clustering and bridging. Other bridge symptoms included negative emotions, difficulty concentrating, and reckless behaviour.</div></div><div><h3>Principal conclusions</h3><div>The symptom of detachment played a pervasive role in centrality and bridging in a network of PTSS in PSP. Future research is necessary to identify whether central PTSS differ across populations based on their PPTE type (e.g., combat, assault, rape) or typical environmental factors (e.g., group cohesion in PSP and military).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":29932,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation","volume":"9 1","pages":"Article 100505"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143163728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The epistolary form in writing mediation as a response to traumatic intrusion","authors":"Emmanuelle Jay","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100499","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100499","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The aim of this article is to describe the therapeutic effects of the epistolary form proposed as writing instructions to women who were victims of sexual abuse, within the context of a one-to-one art therapy/psychotherapy mediated by writing. Our work will be based upon the case of Victoire, a 18 year old woman who came to see us while suffering from severe. Victoire was raped when she was 14. While being treated through writing, Victoire kept up a fictional correspondence with her “chouchoune” (i.e. a word she coined to name her sex organs). Thanks to this subjectivity and bonding work involved in the writing of these imaginary letters, the patient was able to restore movement, creativity and continuity right where time, hope and the topic of meaning had come to a halt, were lost and frozen by the trauma's intrusion. The epistolary form has been shown to have an encompassing and stimulating therapeutic function in supporting victims of sexual abuse and, from there, in treating the traumatic intrusion. In line with Anzieu's work around envelopes, we also propose that the poetic letter be considered as a lyrical envelope enabling communication between two parts of the ego-splitting: the ego can express distress and offers to care at the same time. This proposal leans on the concept of tenderness as championed by Laurent Tigrane-Tovmassian.</div></div><div><div>Cet article vise à décrire les effets thérapeutiques de la forme épistolaire proposée comme consigne d’écriture à des femmes victimes de violences sexuelles dans le cadre d'une prise en charge en individuel en art-thérapie - psychothérapie à médiation par l’écriture. Nous prendrons appui sur le cas de Victoire, une jeune femme de 18 ans venue consulter dans un état de grande dépression. Victoire a subi un viol à l’âge de 14 ans. Au cours d'une psychothérapie à médiation par l’écriture, Victoire a entretenu une correspondance fictive avec sa « chouchoune » (petit mot pour désigner son sexe). Grâce à ce travail de subjectivité et de liaison engagé dans l’écriture de ces lettres imaginaires, la patiente a pu remettre du mouvement, de la créativité et de la continuité là où le temps, l'espoir et la question du sens s’étaient arrêtés, figés par l'effraction du traumatisme. La forme épistolaire démontre d'une fonction thérapeutique contenante et stimulante pour accompagner les victimes de violences sexuelles, et, par extension, pour traiter l'effraction traumatique. Nous proposons également, dans la lignée des travaux d'Anzieu autour des enveloppes, de concevoir la lettre poétique comme <em>une enveloppe lyrique</em> qui permettrait la communication entre les deux parts d'un Moi clivé : celle qui peut exprimer la détresse et celle qui, dans le même temps, se propose d'apporter du soin. Cette proposition s'appuie le concept de la tendresse soutenu par Laurent Tigrane-Tovmassian.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":29932,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation","volume":"9 1","pages":"Article 100499"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143163669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Linguistic agentivity as a marker of traumatic discourse","authors":"Frédérique Gayraud ,&nbsp;Yann Auxéméry","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100501","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100501","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Objectives&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;During reification in the face of an aggressor, helplessness in the face of a natural disaster or the death of a loved one, or inability to flee political violence, the notion of loss of agency proves to be consubstantial with traumatic confrontations. The cardinal post-traumatic symptoms in themselves increase this loss of the sense of agency: uncontrollable flashbacks, extensive avoidances, depression that limits capacities for action, depersonalization. The psychotraumatic consequences sometimes take control of a large part of one's existence, even if it means inducing new traumas. The aim of this study was thus to examine how psychologically injured people encode agentivity in their traumatic discourses. Agency refers to the fact that humans can make choices that affect their existence or their environment, choices that produce changes. Several studies have shown that people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have a diminished sense of agency. We therefore hypothesized that, linguistically speaking, subjects suffering from PTSD would use more stative verbs and fewer action verbs than controls.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Materials and methods&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;Three corpora of trauma narratives produced by victims of the Paris attacks that took place in 2015, as well as the narratives of French soldiers returning from the war in Afghanistan, were compared with the narratives of a control group. The proportions of different types of static verbs and action verbs used with the first-person pronoun “I” were analysed. We thus detailed the uses of verbs of quality, existence, locations, cognitions, and perceptions, with a subdivision of action verbs into verbs of action, displacement, and movement.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Results&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our results show that traumatic discourses contained significantly fewer action verbs, particularly verbs denoting movement, in favour of static verbs, particularly verbs of cognition and perception, especially in the Paris attacks corpus. As for action verbs, the control group and to a lesser extent the Afghanistan group used more action and displacement verbs, while the immediate Bataclan group produced more movement verbs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Discussion&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;As we suspected, traumatic speech was less prone to action verbs, this linguomarker reflecting a low sense of agency. The identifiable differences between the corpora of psychologically injured subjects can be linked to the traumatic circumstances (i.e., the place was closed after the Paris attacks) and to the populations studied (e.g., military staff engaged in combat action). These data confront us with the need to define not only clinical and psychometric sub-phenotyping of post-traumatic disorders, but also psycho-linguotyping according to certain variables: age of occurrence during the event, individual or collective trauma, temporality of exposures (single trauma, short, long, or repeated), etcetera.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Conclusion","PeriodicalId":29932,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation","volume":"9 1","pages":"Article 100501"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143163727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transgenerational trauma and resilience in post-communist Central Europe: A comparative study of survivors, their descendants, and control groups","authors":"Nikola Doubková ,&nbsp;Radek Heissler ,&nbsp;Edel Sanders ,&nbsp;Marek Preiss","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100509","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100509","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>One way to explore the psychological consequences of state oppression is by focusing on the lasting effects on survivors and their descendants.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>In the context of former Czechoslovakia, this study compares the experiences of two generations of families expelled from the country during the “Asanace” campaign with control groups of people whose families have not encountered any forms of oppression.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Overall, 58 people participated; 29 from the first and second generations were matched with 29 controls. Questionnaires assessing the severity of stress and trauma-related symptoms, coping strategies, resilience, and family communication were administered.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>No significant differences were found between the first generation of survivors and the control group. The analysis revealed heightened vulnerability of the second generation as the group reported higher severity of stress and trauma-related symptoms and lower ability to recover from stress.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>This study investigates the psychological consequences of state oppression on Czechoslovakian dissidents and their offspring, contributing to the understanding of historical trauma and resilience in post-totalitarian countries of Eastern and Central Europe.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":29932,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation","volume":"9 1","pages":"Article 100509"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143162799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining the association of childhood trauma with secondary traumatic stress for employees working in penal institutions","authors":"Aylin Aydin ,&nbsp;Erdinc Ozturk","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100507","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100507","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Recent studies and approaches establish an association between childhood traumas and secondary traumatic stress. Individuals with childhood traumas are more vulnerable to occasions causing secondary traumatic stress, which is aimed to be elaborated in this study.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The association of childhood traumas with secondary traumatic stress is examined in this study with individuals working in penal institutions as subjects of secondary traumatic stress.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Participants consisted of 344 correctional officers, police officers, soldiers, and other employees in penal institutions (67.7% female, 32.3% male). Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale results were compared to the findings gathered from the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The results indicated that the employees of penal institutions regard themselves as negatively affected by their working environments, the scores collected in secondary traumatic stress increases as the time spent at work, age, and educational status increases, and that the employees of the penal institutions working as correctional officers are more victims of secondary traumatic stress than other groups. The findings also revealed that secondary traumatic stress is correlated with childhood traumas (<em>r</em> = 0.25, <em>p</em> &lt; .01).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Childhood traumas and secondary traumatic stress appear to be relevant. The gender, age, educational status, and the time spent at work are also closely related with secondary traumatic stress which is advised to be researched further with employees of penal institutions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":29932,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation","volume":"9 1","pages":"Article 100507"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143163726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Metacognition and dissociation as mediators between childhood trauma and psychiatric symptoms","authors":"Roberto Pedone ,&nbsp;Giovanni Florio ,&nbsp;Anna Maria Barbarulo ,&nbsp;Alessia Pappalardo ,&nbsp;Benedetto Farina","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100500","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100500","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Childhood trauma (CT) is a significant risk factor for the development of psychopathology, including maladaptive personality traits and psychiatric symptoms. CT has been shown to impact various psychological outcomes, including mood disorders and personality pathologies, but the underlying mechanisms remain underexplored. This study investigates the roles of dissociation and metacognition as parallel mediators in the relationship between CT, personality disorders, and psychiatric symptoms in a general population.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>A total of 1881 adult participants from general population, were included in this cross-sectional study. Participants were administered several self-report questionnaires, including the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), the Metacognition Self-Assessment Scale (MSAS), the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES-II), the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5), and the Symptom Checklist-90- R (SCL-90-R). Data were analyzed using multiple linear regression models and parallel mediation analyses to test the hypotheses that dissociation and metacognition mediate the relationship between childhood trauma, personality disorder severity, and general psychiatric symptoms.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>Results indicated that higher levels of childhood trauma were significantly associated with increased dissociative experiences, lower metacognitive abilities, greater maladaptive personality traits, and more severe psychiatric symptoms. Emotional abuse, in particular, was most strongly correlated with personality disorder severity and psychiatric symptoms. Dissociation and metacognition were found to be significant parallel mediators of the relationship between childhood trauma and both personality disorder severity and psychiatric symptoms. Dissociation was a stronger predictor than metacognition, especially in individuals with high personality disorder severity. In this subgroup, dissociation remained a significant mediator, while metacognition played a lesser role.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>This study provides empirical support for the mediating roles of dissociation and metacognition in the relationship between childhood trauma and adult psychopathology. The findings suggest that these factors, particularly dissociation, are critical pathways linking childhood trauma to more severe personality disorders and psychiatric symptoms. These insights offer potential therapeutic targets, emphasizing the need to address dissociative tendencies and metacognitive deficits in interventions for individuals with histories of childhood trauma. Future research should further investigate these mechanisms longitudinally and explore how different types of trauma differentially affect psychological outcomes. Addressing these mediators could enhance the effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing the long-term psychological impact of childhood trauma.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":29932,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation","volume":"9 1","pages":"Article 100500"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143163725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Polytrauma and executive functioning: A review of cognitive protective mechanisms and resilience","authors":"Mackenzie S. Rose,&nbsp;Marcus L. Johnson","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100503","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100503","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29932,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation","volume":"9 1","pages":"Article 100503"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143163657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}