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. 2003 Summer:(98):11-28.
doi: 10.1002/yd.42.

Threat and trauma: an overview

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Threat and trauma: an overview

Robert D Macy et al. New Dir Youth Dev. 2003 Summer.

Abstract

Common responses after exposure to threat include reexperiencing the event, intrusive thoughts and images, hyperarousal, avoidance and numbing, a sense of a foreshortened future, and shattered assumptions about control and safety.

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