Post-traumatic stress disorder as a public health concern in South Africa
- Authors: Edwards, D J A
- Date: 2005
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6229 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007779
- Description: This article briefly surveys the extent to which traumatic events are a feature of life all over Africa and provides a comprehensive review of research that documents the pervasiveness of traumatic events in South Africa and the prevalence of PTSD symptoms. The material reviewed includes statistics on crime, violence and accidents, research from clinical settings, and surveys. Several provide evidence for the causal link between traumatic events and the development of PTSD. These studies show that PTSD has been and continues to be a significant problem for public health in South Africa, affecting individuals in all sectors of society and as much a concern with respect to children as to adults.
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- Date Issued: 2005
- Authors: Edwards, D J A
- Date: 2005
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6229 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007779
- Description: This article briefly surveys the extent to which traumatic events are a feature of life all over Africa and provides a comprehensive review of research that documents the pervasiveness of traumatic events in South Africa and the prevalence of PTSD symptoms. The material reviewed includes statistics on crime, violence and accidents, research from clinical settings, and surveys. Several provide evidence for the causal link between traumatic events and the development of PTSD. These studies show that PTSD has been and continues to be a significant problem for public health in South Africa, affecting individuals in all sectors of society and as much a concern with respect to children as to adults.
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- Date Issued: 2005
Unconscious influences on discourses about consciousness : ideology, state-specific science and unformulated experience
- Authors: Edwards, D J A
- Date: 2005
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6226 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007776
- Description: Discussions about consciousness are complicated by the fact that participants do not share a common underlying “ordinary” consciousness. Everyday experience is founded on what Teasdale calls implicational cognition, much of which is not verbally formulated. An unacknowledged aspect of debate is individuals’ attempts to negotiate the expression of their unformulated experience. This is further complicated by the way in which a discourse, based on particular ontological assumptions, exercises an ideological control which limits what underlying aspects of experience can be formulated at all. Tart’s concept of state specific sciences provides a framework within which the role of unformulated experience can be acknowledged and taken into account. Unless this is done, debates will be vitiated by participants engaging in ideological struggles and talking at cross-purposes.
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- Date Issued: 2005
- Authors: Edwards, D J A
- Date: 2005
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6226 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007776
- Description: Discussions about consciousness are complicated by the fact that participants do not share a common underlying “ordinary” consciousness. Everyday experience is founded on what Teasdale calls implicational cognition, much of which is not verbally formulated. An unacknowledged aspect of debate is individuals’ attempts to negotiate the expression of their unformulated experience. This is further complicated by the way in which a discourse, based on particular ontological assumptions, exercises an ideological control which limits what underlying aspects of experience can be formulated at all. Tart’s concept of state specific sciences provides a framework within which the role of unformulated experience can be acknowledged and taken into account. Unless this is done, debates will be vitiated by participants engaging in ideological struggles and talking at cross-purposes.
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- Date Issued: 2005
Cognitive therapy and the restructuring of early memories through guided imagery
- Authors: Edwards, D J A
- Date: 1990
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6241 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007853
- Description: This article describes the application of a guided imagery psychodrama technique to emotionally charged early memories. Such memories provide access to core schemata about the self and social relationships. Two case studies illustrate how the imagery technique enables the therapist to identify and restructure key cognitions out of which the schemata are constructed. The need for techniques to modify developmentally primitive schemata is discussed. Examples are given of ways to assist the patient in confronting the strong affect that may be aroused and in dealing with cognitions that block the process. Effectiveness is discussed in terms of the contribution of a guided imagery session to the overall process of ''learning to learn'' that takes place in cognitive psychotherapy.
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- Date Issued: 1990
- Authors: Edwards, D J A
- Date: 1990
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6241 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007853
- Description: This article describes the application of a guided imagery psychodrama technique to emotionally charged early memories. Such memories provide access to core schemata about the self and social relationships. Two case studies illustrate how the imagery technique enables the therapist to identify and restructure key cognitions out of which the schemata are constructed. The need for techniques to modify developmentally primitive schemata is discussed. Examples are given of ways to assist the patient in confronting the strong affect that may be aroused and in dealing with cognitions that block the process. Effectiveness is discussed in terms of the contribution of a guided imagery session to the overall process of ''learning to learn'' that takes place in cognitive psychotherapy.
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- Date Issued: 1990
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