Psychological Trauma-Theory Research Practice and Policy

Article	Citations
Traumatic stress in the age of COVID-19: A call to close critical gaps and adapt to new realities.	457
Fear of COVID-19 and the mental health consequences in America.	403
Loneliness, isolation, and social support factors in post-COVID-19 mental health.	380
Psychological adjustment during the global outbreak of COVID-19: A resilience perspective.	253
The effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on parents: A call to adopt urgent measures.	245
Inequity and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color in the United States: The need for a trauma-informed social justice response.	234
LGBTQ populations: Psychologically vulnerable communities in the COVID-19 pandemic.	203
Home is not always a haven: The domestic violence crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic.	183
COVID-19 disruption on college students: Academic and socioemotional implications.	166
The psychological impact of preexisting mental and physical health conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.	140
Children and the COVID-19 pandemic.	127
The traumatic impact of job loss and job search in the aftermath of COVID-19.	109
The rise of adverse childhood experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.	104
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on community-dwelling caregivers and persons with dementia.	103
Psychological sequelae of social isolation and loneliness might be a larger problem in young adults than older adults.	101
Psychological impact of anti-Asian stigma due to the COVID-19 pandemic: A call for research, practice, and policy responses.	98
Prolonged grief related to COVID-19 deaths: Do we have to fear a steep rise in traumatic and disenfranchised griefs?	97
Psychological impact of COVID-19 in Spain: Early data report.	96
Mental health ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic for Black Americans: Clinical and research recommendations.	96
The outbreak that was always here: Racial trauma in the context of COVID-19 and implications for mental health providers.	94
Resilience is spreading: Mental health within the COVID-19 pandemic.	83
COVID-19: PTSD symptoms in Greek health care professionals.	79
The paradox of social distancing: Implications for older adults in the context of COVID-19.	79
Fear, anger, and media-induced trauma during the outbreak of COVID-19 in the Czech Republic.	78
The psychosocial impact of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: A lesson for mental health prevention in the first severely hit European country.	73

Rural–urban mental health disparities in the United States during COVID-19.	72
Leveraging parent–child interaction therapy and telehealth capacities to address the unique needs of young children during the COVID-19 public health crisis.	68
The hidden disaster of COVID-19: Intimate partner violence.	68
COVID-related family separation and trauma in the intensive care unit.	68
A commentary on moral injury among health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic.	65
Psychotherapists’ vicarious traumatization during the COVID-19 pandemic.	61
A tale of two crises: The compounded effect of COVID-19 and anti-immigration policy in the United States.	61
When time falls apart: The public health implications of distorted time perception in the age of COVID-19.	59
Managing psychological distress in children and adolescents following the COVID-19 epidemic: A cooperative approach.	59
Psychological aspects of employment instability during the COVID-19 pandemic.	57
Psychological and social impact of COVID-19.	55
COVID-19 and refugee and immigrant youth: A community-based mental health perspective.	54
Considering grief in mental health outcomes of COVID-19.	52
Moral injury in Chinese health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic.	52
COVID-19: Threat and fear in Indonesia.	51
Heightened risk of child maltreatment amid the COVID-19 pandemic can exacerbate mental health problems for the next generation.	50
Heterogeneous mental health consequences of COVID-19: Costs and benefits.	50
Shifting from survival to supporting resilience in children and families in the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons for informing U.S. mental health priorities.	49
Role of focusing on the positive side during COVID-19 outbreak: Mental health perspective from positive psychology.	49
Social representations, identity threat, and coping amid COVID-19.	47
Staying safe during COVID-19: How a pandemic can escalate risk for intimate partner violence and what can be done to provide individuals with resources and support.	47
Moral and mental health challenges faced by maternity staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.	47
Benefits of physical activity and physical exercise in the time of pandemic.	45
Stress and cognitive functioning during a pandemic: Thoughts from stress researchers.	44
Does requiring trauma exposure affect rates of ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD? Implications for DSM–5.	42
“When the going gets tough, the tough get—Creative”: Israeli Jewish religious leaders find religiously innovative ways to preserve community members’ sense of belonging and resilience during the COVID	41
Social and psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in African-American communities: Lessons from Michigan.	40
Americans’ distress early in the COVID-19 pandemic: Protective resources and coping strategies.	40
The mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and adolescents: Risk and protective factors.	40
The role of digital mental health resources to treat trauma symptoms in Australia during COVID-19.	39
Attitudes toward COVID-19 and stress levels in Hungary: Effects of age, perceived health status, and gender.	39
Promoting resilience in the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: Psychological interventions for intensive care unit (ICU) clinicians and family members.	38
“Turning personal tragedy into triumph”: A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies on posttraumatic growth among suicide-loss survivors.	38
Art therapy in the time of COVID-19.	38
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health: Real-time surveillance using Google Trends.	38
“If I die, they do not care”: U.K. National Health Service staff experiences of betrayal-based moral injury during COVID-19.	37
Life under the COVID-19 lockdown: On the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and psychological distress.	37
The effect of the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic on college students in Wuhan.	36
Understanding the mental health burden of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom.	36
A model for treating COVID-19–related guilt, shame, and moral injury.	34
The COVID-19 pandemic in Australia: Lessons learnt.	34
Doomscrolling during COVID-19: The negative association between daily social and traditional media consumption and mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic.	34
Raising awareness of disabled lives and health care rationing during the COVID-19 pandemic.	33
I may never see the ocean again: Loss and grief among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.	33
Validation of the Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care Scale (ARTIC).	33
Mental health and the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile.	33
Disparities, desperation, and divisiveness: Coping with COVID-19 in India.	33
Supporting health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: Mental health support initiatives and lessons learned from an academic medical center.	33
Handling uncertainty and ambiguity in the COVID-19 pandemic.	32
Implementing an emotional support and mental health response plan for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.	32

Aging veterans’ mental health and well-being in the context of COVID-19: The importance of social ties during physical distancing.	31
Mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.	31
Is Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) a comparable recruitment source for trauma studies?	30
COVID-19, mental health, and opioid use disorder: Old and new public health crises intertwine.	29
The impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and combat exposure on mental health conditions among new post-9/11 veterans.	29
Mental health stressors in Israel during the coronavirus pandemic.	29
On the frontlines: Protecting low-wage workers during COVID-19.	29
Defining trauma and a trauma-informed COVID-19 response.	29
The COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa.	28
China experience from COVID-19: Mental health in mandatory quarantine zones urgently requires intervention.	28
COVID-19: Understanding and mitigating trauma in ICU survivors.	27
Predicting treatment dropout among veterans receiving prolonged exposure therapy.	27
Are women still “the other”? Gendered mental health interventions for health care workers in Spain during COVID-19.	27
Adjustment and coronavirus: How to prepare for COVID-19 pandemic-related adjustment disorder worldwide?	27
The mental turmoil of hospital nurses in the COVID-19 pandemic.	27
Coronavirus: A trigger for OCD and illness anxiety disorder?	27
COVID-19 and spontaneous singing to decrease loneliness, improve cohesion, and mental well-being: An Italian experience.	26
Associations between sexual assault and suicidal thoughts and behavior: A meta-analysis.	26
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender-based violence in the United States: Framework and policy recommendations.	25
The role of the COVID-19 pandemic as a risk factor for suicide: What is its impact on the public mental health state today?	24
Therapists’ resilience and posttraumatic growth during the COVID-19 pandemic.	24
Addressing trauma and stress in the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and the promise of integrated primary care.	24
From secondary traumatic stress to vicarious posttraumatic growth amid COVID-19 lockdown in Greece: The role of health care workers’ coping strategies.	24
Symptoms improve after a yoga program designed for PTSD in a randomized controlled trial with veterans and civilians.	24
Institutional betrayal and help-seeking among women survivors of military sexual trauma.	24
The impact of neurofeedback training on children with developmental trauma: A randomized controlled study.	23
Commentary on the coronavirus pandemic: Nigeria.	23
Psychological trauma and moral injury in religious leaders during COVID-19.	23
Need for a population health approach to understand and address psychosocial consequences of COVID-19.	23
Feasibility of a 3-week intensive treatment program for service members and veterans with PTSD.	22
COVID-19 and U.S.-based refugee populations: Commentary.	22
Social and psychological consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak: The experiences of Taiwan and Hong Kong.	22
A culturally specific mental health and spirituality approach for African Americans facing the COVID-19 pandemic.	22
The psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and coping with them in Saudi Arabia.	22
Dying in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic: Contextual considerations and clinical recommendations.	22
Meditating in virtual reality: Proof-of-concept intervention for posttraumatic stress.	22
A culturally-competent approach to emergency management: What lessons can we learn from the COVID-19?	22
Preloss grief in family members of COVID-19 patients: Recommendations for clinicians and researchers.	22
The role of pets in managing uncertainty from COVID-19.	21
Risk and protective factors for symptoms of depression and anxiety among American Indians: Understanding the roles of resilience and trauma.	21
Parental worry, family-based disaster education and children’s internalizing and externalizing problems during the COVID-19 pandemic.	21
Sexual dysfunction in women with a history of childhood sexual abuse: The role of sexual shame.	21
DNA methylation of NR3C1 and FKBP5 is associated with posttraumatic stress disorder, posttraumatic growth, and resilience.	21
Changes in physiological reactivity in response to the trauma memory during prolonged exposure and virtual reality exposure therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder.	21
Collective trauma and community support: Lessons from Detroit.	21
Behavioral activation for PTSD: A meta-analysis.	21
Commentary on the coronavirus pandemic: Anticipating a fourth wave in the opioid epidemic.	20
Emotion regulation as a transdiagnostic factor in Afghan refugees.	20
Preparing for the aftermath of COVID-19: Shifting risk and downstream health consequences.	20
The effect of trauma proximity and ruminative response styles on posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth following a university shooting.	20
Association between daily rumination and posttraumatic growth during the COVID-19 pandemic: An experience sampling method.	19
Association between posttraumatic stress disorder and nonfatal drug overdose.	19
Emotional resilience and event centrality mediate posttraumatic growth following adverse childhood experiences.	19
Impulsivity as a mediating factor in the association between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and substance use.	18
Emotional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on U.S. health care workers: A gathering storm.	18
Local to global: Somali perspectives on faith, community, and resilience in response to COVID-19.	18
The impact of adverse childhood experiences on adolescent health risk indicators in a community sample.	18
Work-related traumatic stress spillover in first responder families: A systematic review of the literature.	18
The power of disconnection during the COVID-19 emergency: From isolation to reparation.	18
Under the COVID-19 lockdown: Rapid review about the unique case of North Cyprus.	18
The effects of nonconventional palliative and end-of-life care during COVID-19 pandemic on mental health—Junior doctors’ perspective.	18
Psychosocial well-being among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorder.	18
Yoga for veterans with PTSD: Cognitive functioning, mental health, and salivary cortisol.	17
Scoring the Life Events Checklist: Comparison of three scoring methods.	17
Exposure to prior negative life events and responses to the Boston marathon bombings.	17
Mitigating social and economic sources of trauma: The need for universal basic income during the coronavirus pandemic.	17
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic upon mental health: Perspectives from Vietnam.	17
Moral injury in the wake of coronavirus: Attending to the psychological impact of the pandemic.	17
Shattered social identity and moral injuries: Work-related conditions in health care professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic.	17
A prospective study of firefighters’ PTSD and depression symptoms: The first 3 years of service.	16
Intergenerational effects of maternal PTSD: Roles of parenting stress and child sex.	16
Posttraumatic growth in breast cancer survivors: Are depressive symptoms really negative predictors?	16
Impact of family rejection and racism on sexual and gender minority stress among LGBTQ young people of color during COVID-19.	16
Caring for patients with posttraumatic stress and substance use disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic.	16
Attachment processes following traumatic loss: A mediation model examining identity distress, shattered assumptions, prolonged grief, and posttraumatic growth.	16
Moral injury and ICD-11 complex PTSD (CPTSD) symptoms among treatment-seeking veterans in the United Kingdom.	15
Trauma-focused cognitive–behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) for interpersonal trauma in transitional-aged youth.	15
Work-related and nonwork stressors, PTSD, and psychological distress: Prevalence and attributable burden among Australian police and emergency services employees.	15
Factors predicting the development of psychopathology among first responders: A prospective, longitudinal study.	15
Do levels of posttraumatic growth vary by type of traumatic event experienced? An analysis of the Nurses’ Health Study II.	15

Managing the coronavirus pandemic in Portugal: A step-by-step adjustment of health and social services.	15
The impact of received social support on posttraumatic growth after disaster: The importance of both support quantity and quality.	15
The economic burden of dissociative disorders: A qualitative systematic review of empirical studies.	15
Trajectories and possible predictors of treatment outcome for youth receiving trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy.	15
Viruism: The need for a new term describing COVID-19 impact in context of viral victimization.	14
The longitudinal association between symptoms of posttraumatic stress and complicated grief: A random intercepts cross-lag analysis.	14
Deafness and mental health: Clinical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.	14
The need for trauma training: Clinicians’ reactions to training on complex trauma.	14
Mental health problems related to COVID-19: A call for psychosocial interventions in Uganda.	14
Mental health crisis of Japanese health care workers under COVID-19.	14
COVID-19 anti-Asian racism and race-based stress: A phenomenological qualitative media analysis.	14
School-based health centers during academic disruption: Challenges and opportunity in urban mental health.	14
Perceived benefits and drawbacks of massed prolonged exposure: A qualitative thematic analysis of reactions from treatment completers.	14
Beyond PTSD: Client presentations of developmental trauma disorder from a national survey of clinicians.	14
Burnout following moral injury and dehumanization: A study of distress among Italian medical staff during the first COVID-19 pandemic period.	14
Experiential avoidance as a mediator in the relationship between shame and posttraumatic stress disorder: The effect of gender.	14
COVID-19 has united patients and providers against institutional betrayal in health care: A battle to be heard, believed, and protected.	14
Different emotional profile of health care staff and general population during the COVID-19 outbreak.	14
The contributions of emotion regulation difficulties and dissociative symptoms to functional impairment among civilian inpatients with posttraumatic stress symptoms.	14
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: Furnishing experiences from India.	14
Emotion regulation in undergraduate students with posttraumatic stress symptoms: A multimethod study.	14
Gender implications of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale in the Spanish population: A validation study.	14
Using self-compassion to grow in the face of trauma: The role of positive reframing and problem-focused coping strategies.	14
Long-term displacement associated with health and stress among survivors of Typhoon Haiyan.	13
Measurement and conceptualization of maternal PTSD following childbirth: Psychometric properties of the City Birth Trauma Scale—French Version (City BiTS-F).	13
Rapid response to acute stress reaction: Pilot test of iCOVER training for military units.	13
South Korea’s proactive approach to the COVID-19 global crisis.	13
Direct and indirect effects of mindfulness, PTSD, and depression on self-stigma of mental illness in OEF/OIF veterans.	13
Finding the silver linings in the COVID-19 pandemic: Psychosocial correlates of adversarial growth among Filipina domestic helpers in Hong Kong.	13
The need for psychosocial support amid COVID-19 crises in Nigeria.	13
Military sexual trauma and alcohol misuse among military veterans: The roles of negative and positive emotion dysregulation.	13
Effects of mindfulness training on posttraumatic stress symptoms from a community-based pilot clinical trial among survivors of intimate partner violence.	13
Examining the impact of a Healing Touch intervention to reduce posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in combat veterans.	13
The interplay of negative and positive emotion dysregulation on mental health outcomes among trauma-exposed community individuals.	13
The Asylum Seekers Photographic Interview (ASPI): Evaluation of a new method to increase Nigerian asylum seekers’ narrative meaning-making after trauma.	13
Sexual function in adults with a history of childhood maltreatment: Mediating effects of self-reported autonomic reactivity.	13
Living under the shadow of a pandemic: The psychological challenges underlying social distancing and awareness raising.	13
Posttraumatic stress and alexithymia: A meta-analysis of presentation and severity.	12
PTSD, depression, and suicidality among survivors of childhood sexual trauma (CST), military sexual trauma (MST), and sexual revictimization (CST + MST).	12
Shared trauma, resilience, and growth: A roadmap toward transcultural conceptualization.	12
Mindfulness as a mediator between trauma exposure and mental health outcomes: Results from the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study.	12
What lies ahead: Elevated concerns for the ongoing suicide pandemic.	12
Losing and regaining reflective functioning in the times of COVID-19: Clinical risks and opportunities from a mentalizing approach.	12
Distortions in time perception during collective trauma: Insights from a national longitudinal study during the COVID-19 pandemic.	12
COVID-19 in Malta: The mental health impact.	12
PTSD symptoms and suicide risk among firefighters: The moderating role of sleep disturbance.	11
Safety and services for survivors of intimate partner violence: A researcher–practitioner dialogue on the impact of COVID-19.	11
Timing of evidence-based psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder initiation among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans in the Veterans Health Administration.	11
Does exposure exacerbate symptoms in veterans with PTSD and alcohol use disorder?	11
Gender differences in outcomes following specialized intensive PTSD treatment in the Veterans Health Administration.	11
Measuring positive psychosocial sequelae in patients with advanced cancer.	11
Together we stand: Suicide risk and suicide prevention among Israeli older adults during and after the COVID-19 world crisis.	11
“Pandemonium of the pandemic”: Impact of COVID-19 in India, focus on mental health.	11
Unhealthy family functioning is associated with health-related quality of life among military spouse caregivers.	11
Intergenerational transmission of risk for PTSD symptoms in African American children: The roles of maternal and child emotion dysregulation.	11
Affective working memory capacity in refugee adolescents.	11
Moral injury, PTSD, and complex PTSD among Israeli health and social care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: The moderating role of self-criticism.	11
Testing theoretical predictors of posttraumatic growth and posttraumatic stress symptoms.	10
The COVID-19 pandemic as traumatic stressor: Distress in older adults is predicted by childhood trauma and mitigated by defensive functioning.	10
Effectiveness of written exposure therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in the Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.	10
The COVID-19 pandemic and Thailand: A psychologist’s viewpoint.	10
When (passive) acceptance hurts: Race-based coping moderates the association between racial discrimination and mental health outcomes among Black Americans.	10
Posttraumatic stress disorder among older adults: A differential item functioning analysis of PTSD in ICD-11 and DSM–5.	10
Shared and unique mechanisms underlying the association of trauma exposure with posttraumatic stress symptoms and growth among adolescents following the Jiuzhaigou earthquake.	10
A population mental health perspective on the impact of COVID-19.	10
Personal mastery and community dedication as mediators of the association of trauma exposure with PTSS and PTG.	10
Rape narratives analysis through natural language processing: Survivor self-label, narrative time span, faith, and rape terminology.	10
Acute stress, worry, and impairment in health care and non-health care essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.	10
Yoga for warriors: An intervention for veterans with comorbid chronic pain and PTSD.	10
Mental health support in Jordan for the general population and for the refugees in the Zaatari camp during the period of COVID-19 lockdown.	10
The coronavirus pandemic and Holocaust survivors in Israel.	10
Sociocultural context and the posttraumatic psychological response: Considering culture, social support, and posttraumatic stress disorder.	10
Prevalence of trauma among young adults exposed to stressful events of armed conflicts in South Asia: Experiences from Kashmir.	10
When chaos is the norm: How some veterans with PTSD are continuing to engage in trauma-focused treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic.	10
Tending and mending: Affiliative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by healthcare professionals in Italy.	10
School-based racial microaggressions: A barrier to resilience among African American adolescents exposed to trauma.	10
Ethnic-racial identity and posttraumatic stress disorder: The role of emotional avoidance among trauma-exposed community individuals.	10
Massed cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in women survivors of intimate partner violence.	10
The effectiveness of trauma-informed wilderness therapy with adolescents: A pilot study.	9
The coronavirus pandemic in Malaysia: A commentary.	9
Traumatic experiences and somatoform dissociation in women with fibromyalgia.	9
Long-term intergenerational transmission of memories of the Vajont disaster.	9
The effects of web-prolonged exposure among military personnel and veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder.	9
Associations among childhood threat and deprivation experiences, emotion dysregulation, and mental health in pregnant women.	9
Evaluating social skills training for youth with trauma symptoms in residential programs.	9
Moral medical decision-making: Colliding sacred values in response to COVID-19 pandemic.	9
Gender differences in the PTSD symptoms of polytraumatized youth during isolated phases of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy.	9
Discussing substance use with clients during the COVID-19 pandemic: A motivational interviewing approach.	9
Trauma exposure and mental health in a community sample of children and youth.	9
Adverse childhood experiences and somatic symptoms in adulthood: A moderated mediation effects of disturbed self-organization and resilient coping.	9
The mediating effect of rumination between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and anger reactions.	9
Core belief challenge, rumination, and posttraumatic growth in women following pregnancy loss.	9
A pilot study examining roles of cognitions and affect between positive memory processing and posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity.	9
PTSD and alcohol misuse: Examining the mediating role of fear of self-compassion among military veterans.	9
Exploring the maladaptive cognitions of moral injury within a primarily combat-trauma military sample.	9