Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Bilişsel Davranışçı Psikoterapi ve Araştırmalar Dergisi, cilt.11, sa.2, ss.10-15, 2022 (Hakemli Dergi)
A traumatic event is defined as intense stress experience which people face an event that involves actual or threatened death, serious injury or other threat to one's physical integrity or sanity (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013). Large-scale studies show that approximately 7 out of 10 people face a traumatic experience in their lifetime (Darves‐Bornoz et. al. 2008; Kessler et al., 2017). While such traumatic experiences are quite common and ubiquitous, exposure to these kinds of events has been recognized as part of human life. Even though individual responses to trauma can vary widely, it seriously strains individuals' coping capacity and may have a life-long impact (Aker, 2012; Gerhart et al., 2015). It is inevitable that, these intense stress experiences have mental, emotional, physical or other effects on the person and threat well-being (