traumatization
- noun
- /ˌtrɔːmətaɪˈzeɪʃən/
- Specialized
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traumatización
- Many young children suffer from emotional traumatization after experiencing a natural disaster.
- vicarious traumatization
- secondary traumatization
If you've experienced any of those, you are then more susceptible to re traumatization and developing PTSD.
- If you've experienced any of those, you are then more susceptible to re traumatization and developing PTSD.
- And so now that becomes the another layer of traumatization where it's like, yo, I don't know how much she's feeling me in return.
Examples
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Therapists often observe the traumatization of their clients following violent incidents.
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Trauma exposure may lead to traumatization or distress when fear, anger, or stress overwhelms the child's internal attributes and protective mechanisms (Finkelhor & Asdigian, 1996).
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Mention is often made of their traumatization.
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This rate of traumatization is greater for people who come from violent urban areas or from parts of the world.
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Therefore, it is possible that the psychology graduate students in the present study are beginning to experience some feelings of secondary traumatization, particularly as these students are in advanced classes that may go over trauma in detail and have started to see clients in a professional setting.
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If you've experienced any of those, you are then more susceptible to re traumatization and developing PTSD.
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Sleep disturbances are a major marker of both short- and long-term traumatization (Wiger & Harowski, 2003).
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Furthermore, a lack of self-care could contribute to practitioner traumatization (Newell et al. 2016), suggesting the need for further research on the impact of working with trauma.
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Jotzo and Poets (2005) described how mothers in the NICU who were included, after giving birth, in an intervention program combining early crisis intervention and intense support at critical times reported reduced symptoms of traumatization relating to premature birth.
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It problematizes oversimplified, generalized, and politicized notions of healing and foregrounds the need to pay attention to the individual contexts of traumatization.
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Synonyms
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4.8
A very upsetting experience that hurts your feelings and mind
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7.9
A very strong emotional hurt that stays for a long time after a frightening or sad event
Antonyms
How Traumatized
Surface Forms
Morphology
traumatization = traumatize (transparent) = trauma + ize + ation
The noun is a regular -ation nominalization of the verb 'traumatize', so the formation and meaning are clear.
Etymology
Traumatization comes from the Greek word trauma, which means 'wound', with parts like -ize and -ation that turn it into the process of being wounded. Think of it as an emotional or mental 'wound' that can last a long time, which is why the word means lasting harm to the mind or feelings.