psychological trauma experienced by a rape victim

A psychotherapeutic approach, often utilized with children and adolescents, that addresses emotional and behavioral difficulties due to a traumatic event by talking through the event with the patient.

(psychology) A psychological condition that develops following some stressful situation or event, with symptoms such as sleep disturbance, recurrent dreams, flashbacks, hypervigilance, depression, dissociation, withdrawal or lack of concentration.

Of, caused by, or causing trauma. / (medicine, dated) Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds. / (dated) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.

(dated, medicine) A medicine for wounds; a vulnerary.

plural of trauma

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of traumatize.

(transitive, pathology) To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents. / (transitive, psychiatry) To cause a trauma in.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of traumatize

present participle of traumatise