LibGuides: PSY-8313: Trauma across the Developmental Continuum: Week 3 Resources

Week 3 Resources

Bessel van der Kolk, M. (2015). The body keeps the score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma. Penguin Books.

Read Chapters 4, 5, and 6.

These chapters will help you understand the mind-body connection and how trauma to the body impacts trauma to the mind and vice versa.

Access your Redshelf book in the Getting Started module of the course or click on Bookshelf in the top navigation bar of the course.

Affective, Neurocognitive, and Psychosocial Disorders Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-traumatic Epilepsy
Semple, B. D., Zamani, A., Rayner, G., Shultz, S. R., & Jones, N. C. (2019). Affective, neurocognitive, and psychosocial disorders associated with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic epilepsy. <Neurobiology of Disease, 123, 27–41.
This article describes lasting changes that can result in behavior and cognition after brain trauma.
Mindfulness as a Mediator between Trauma Exposure and Mental Health Outcomes
Kachadourian, L. K., Harpaz-Rotem, I., Tsai, J., Southwick, S., & Pietrzak, R. H. (2021). Mindfulness as a mediator between trauma exposure and mental health outcomes: Results from the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study.Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 13(2), 223–230.
This article looks at mindfulness as a possible solution for trauma responses in veterans.