Trauma - in Psychology and Medicine

In Psychology and Medicine

  • Trauma (medicine), an often serious and body-altering physical injury, such as the removal of a limb
    • Blast injury, a type of physical trauma caused by an explosion
    • Blunt trauma, a type of physical trauma caused by impact or other force applied from or with a blunt object
    • Penetrating trauma, a type of physical trauma in which the skin or tissues are pierced by an object
  • Psychological trauma, an emotional or psychological injury, usually resulting from an extremely stressful or life-threatening situation
  • Vicarious traumatization, transformation in the self of a trauma worker or helper that results from empathic engagement with traumatized clients and their reports of traumatic experiences.
  • Geriatric trauma, trauma in the elderly
  • Pediatric trauma, trauma in children
  • Trauma center, a hospital equipped to provide comprehensive emergency medical services to patients suffering traumatic injuries
  • Trauma surgery, a surgical specialty
  • Trauma team, a group of healthcare workers who attend to seriously ill or injured casualties who arrive at a hospital emergency department

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