Much More Than PTSD: Mothers' Narratives of the Impact of Trauma on Child Survivors and Their Families.

摘要: This study examined the narratives of ten Caucasian mothers whose children had been impacted by ‘traumatic’ events and referred to a specialist trauma service in N. Ireland. The research question was whether PTSD construct adequately represented broad ‘lived’ experience impact on survivors’ wellbeing their family relationships as articulated post trauma. Narrative Interviewing methodology employed resulting data inductively organised into an evolving thematic framework. A quantitative analysis prevalence particular themes is presented supplemented qualitative quotations illustrate complexity reported impact. major components mothers’ included relational distress (35.7%), non-pathological individual (24.4%), resilience (16.7%) prior history adversity (16.6%). Prior resent 8 out 10 cases including high level suicide. symptomatology constituted small proportion (6.6%) this suggests that does not represent Although heterogeneous sample, findings are sufficiently robust suggest further investigation required understand phenomenological child victims/survivors families.