Memon, A;
Connolly, D;
Brewin, CR;
Meyer, T;
Seidel, J;
Anderson, S;
Rijkeboer, M;
(2021)
How do adults with post-traumatic stress disorder from childhood trauma talk about single versus repeated traumas?
Applied Cognitive Psychology
, 35
(4)
pp. 924-934.
10.1002/acp.3820.
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Abstract
Adults with posttraumatic stress disorder from childhood trauma (ch‐PTSD) described their 'worst' traumatic event (a single or repeated event) pre‐post treatment for PTSD during an international clinical trial. The memory reports were coded for specificity (Episodic vs. General) and level of detail. Repeated event (RE) narratives contained more generic and fewer episodic references but no more details than memories describing single events (SEs). Analysis of a subset of the sample's post‐treatment memory reports found 38% of the information units were consistent with the pre‐treatment narrative, 38% were omitted, 21% were new details and 2% were changes. The SE and RE groups did not differ on consistency. The data provide a unique insight into single versus repeated event memory reporting in a clinical sample with PTSD from childhood trauma.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | How do adults with post-traumatic stress disorder from childhood trauma talk about single versus repeated traumas? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/acp.3820 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3820 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 The Authors. Applied Cognitive Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
| Keywords: | abuse, consistency, memory, PTSD, repeated single event, schema, trauma |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10125582 |
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