traumatic experience

collocation in English

meaningsoftraumaticandexperience

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traumatic
adjective
uk
/trɔːˈmæt.ɪk/
us
/trɑːˈmæt̬.ɪk/
causing severe and lasting emotional shock ...
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experience
noun
uk
/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/
us
/ɪkˈspɪr.i.əns/
(the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or ...
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(Definition oftraumaticandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Traditional theories regarding the etiology of this disorder have focused on environmental contributors, such as poor rearing conditions ortraumaticexperience.
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The items refer to symptoms associated with atraumaticexperience.
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These factors are divided into three categories: (a) factors prior to, (b) factors relating to, and (c) factors following thetraumaticexperience(s).
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The second, or antimimetic theory, also tends to make imitative identification basic to thetraumaticexperience, but it understands imitation differently.
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Shortly after atraumaticexperience, the strong affective reaction may act as a cue and cause reactivation of the emotion-provoking event information.
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Immediately following the traumatic incident, during the period of posttrauma elaboration, a supportive adult can facilitate the child making sense of thetraumaticexperience.
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To identify benefits from atraumaticexperiencesuch as cancer, one has to engage in cognitive appraisal of the experience.
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During the imaginal exposure, patients relive thetraumaticexperiencestepwise in the here-and-now, following a brief period of relaxation.
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These 'rewards,' however, barely compensated for thetraumaticexperienceof the layoff, especially in the late 1940s when unemployment became severe.
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A mimetic concept of thetraumaticexperienceand the concept of survivor guilt have gone hand in hand.
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Scientists have begun to explore the effects oftraumaticexperienceon adult central nervous system functioning.
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Thus, the personal significance of certain stimuli, shaped by a history oftraumaticexperience, modulated the processing of this information.
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Some might argue that thetraumaticexperienceitself, rather than unresolved status, contributed to these results.
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One approach to investigating the associations between emotional development andtraumaticexperienceis to focus upon maltreated children.
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Only one study has examined children's reports of a repeatedtraumaticexperience.
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The memory of thetraumaticexperiencetherefore par ticipates in defining identities of a subject society, as well as in creating new identities.
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Related to this idea is the issue of the causal explanation of thetraumaticexperience.
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