title: Threat and trauma: an overview.
abstract: Common responses after exposure to threat include reexperiencing the event, intrusive thoughts and images, hyperarousal, avoidance and numbing, a sense of a foreshortened future, and shattered assumptions about control and safety.
authors.affiliation: Center for Trauma Psychology, National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Network-Category III, Community Services, Trauma Center-Boston, USA.
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Macy
authors.forename: Susanna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Barry
authors.forename: Gil G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Noam
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D000293:Adolescent; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008016:Life Change Events; D011603:Psychophysiology; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D023481:Terrorism / Q000523:psychology*