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Measuring Cumulative Trauma Dose, Types, and Profiles Using a Development-Based Taxonomy of Traumas

Ibrahim A. Kira*, Linda Lewandowski, Thomas Templin, Vidya Ramaswamy, Bulent Ozkan, and Jamal Mohanesh

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kiraaref{at}aol.com.


  Abstract
This study presents a new short scale for measuring cumulative trauma dose, types, and profiles that is based on the APA (American Psychological Association) trauma Group (currently division 56) definition of trauma and a new, two-way development-based taxonomy of trauma. The new measure was tested using a sample of 501 Iraqi refugees who are one of the most traumatized groups. The following six salient factors were found: collective identity, family, personal identity, interdependence or secondary, man-made or nature-made survival, and abandonment types of traumas. The study provided evidence of adequate reliability; construct, convergent, divergent and predictive validity of the new scale and provided partial confirmation of the validity of the development-based taxonomy of traumas. A new method was introduced to measure trauma types and profiles and their differential association with different symptom configurations and health disorders. The newly developed measure can be used in clinical trauma-informed settings and in research.

First published on May 29, 2008, doi:10.1177/1534765608319324

Traumatology 2008;14:62.

A more recent version of this article appeared on June 1, 2008

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