Etiological factors
9 important questions on Etiological factors
What are the Trauma Exposure Risks outlined in the diagram?
- Unsafe Family or Community
- Externalizing Behavior
Identify the Causal Risk Factors related to stress and trauma.
- Preexisting Psychiatric Disorder
- Genetic/Early Life Brain/Body Alteration
- Altered Cognitive Processing
What factors are included under Vulnerability Factors in the diagram?
- Ethnoracial Minority
- Younger Age (Child or Adult)
- Family Instability
- Adverse Childhood Events
- Prior Trauma Exposure
- Peritraumatic Parental Distress
- Peritraumatic Personal Distress
- Peritraumatic Dissociation
- Physical injury
- Direct (versus witnessed) trauma
- Reluctance/inability to disclose
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What Protective Factors are suggested to mitigate the impact of trauma?
- Coping Self-Efficacy
- Social Support
- Early Effective Intervention
What are the Adverse Outcomes listed in the event of trauma?
- Chronic PTSD
- Comorbid Disorders
- Increased vulnerability to future PTSD or disorders
List the Beneficial Outcomes achieved through managing trauma effectively.
- Resumed Learning and Adaptive Functioning
- Reduced Vulnerability to future PTSD or disorders
What are the Posttrauma Risks highlighted in the diagram?
- Other Life Stressors
- Social Isolation
- Sense of Mental Defeat
- Negative Responses to Disclosure
- Delayed/No Treatment
What Posttrauma Protective Factors are suggested to support recovery?
- Self-Efficacy
- Emotion Regulation
How does trauma experienced as a child affect individuals later in life?
- Reduces impulse control
- Makes it hard to identify safe individuals
- Good social support and early intervention are key protective factors
- Genetics role not well understood
- Biology influences reaction to trauma, especially in youth
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