Traumatic Stress
Dimension 559 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Traumatic Stress measures the extent to which an expression reflects ongoing psychological and bodily disturbance linked to a traumatic or highly stressful experience. It encompasses intrusive re-experiencing, hypervigilance, distress to reminders, dissociation, and efforts to avoid trauma-related thoughts, feelings, people, or situations.
evidence final name · Since Trauma
Minimal Traumatic Stress
Expressions activating this band mention stressful experiences, unusual perceptions, sleep disruption, or role spillover in a tentative, descriptive, or low-commitment way, with trauma-related disturbance not clearly consolidated as an active syndrome.
Moderate Traumatic Stress
Expressions activating this band show recognizable trauma-related activation such as unwanted memories, nightmares, amnesia for parts of the event, heightened watchfulness, and being easily startled. The experience is framed as an ongoing response to a stressful event and includes clear signs of arousal and re-experiencing.
High Traumatic Stress
Expressions activating this band reflect strong emotional and bodily reactivity to trauma reminders, marked upset when cued, and difficulty recalling important parts of the traumatic experience. The trauma is experienced as personally significant and readily reactivated by reminders.
Severe Traumatic Stress
Expressions activating this band reflect pervasive trauma-related dysregulation marked by physiological triggering, deliberate avoidance of trauma thoughts, feelings, conversations, people, or situations, and dissociative states such as unreality, dazed awareness, or emotional numbing. The traumatic experience is represented as highly activating and difficult to approach directly.
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Minimal Since Trauma: Content characterized by goodness, something, recognize, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect since trauma at this level.
Moderate Since Trauma: Content characterized by since, growth, trauma, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect since trauma at this level.
Intense Since Trauma: Content characterized by since, traumatized, felt, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect since trauma at this level.
Peak Since Trauma: Content characterized by trauma, since, get, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect since trauma at this level.