Helpman, Liat;
Lassri, Dana;
Zsido, Rachel G;
Monk, Catherine;
Dauvermann, Maria R;
(2023)
Pathways of risk, resilience, and recovery: impact of stress and trauma on women and girls.
Frontiers in Psychiatry
, 14
, Article 1290535. 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1290535.
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Abstract
Introduction Stress and trauma are ubiquitous experiences that have been identified as transdiagnostic factors associated with a higher risk for disproportionately detrimental physical and mental health outcomes for women and girls, including posttraumatic and affective disorders (1, 2). The underlying mechanisms of this increased risk likely involve complex biopsychosocial processes that have yet to be fully identified (3). Furthermore, the role of protective and resilience factors buffering these associations remain relatively unexamined. In this Research Topic, we aim to address this complexity from various interdisciplinary perspectives and discuss the biological, psychological, and social factors that may underpin both risk and resilience in the face of stressful and traumatic experiences. This collection of research includes biological substrates of risk, such as neural (Eder-Moreau et al.), genetic (Carvalho et al.) and endocrine (Brouillard et al.) factors. It also addresses potential social determinants of poor health, such as economic precarity and social isolation (Pazderka et al.) as well as the co-occurrence among mental health, risky behavior, and infectious disease among women released from incarceration (Johnson et al.). Social determinants also hold the potential for buffering potentially negative impact, through resources accessed in the face of adversity (Zamir et al.). The psychological underpinnings that may help explain the associations between stressful experience and compromised outcomes are also explored. These include interpretation of stressors from a social perspective (Azoulay and Gilboa-Schechtman) as well as from a psychological perspective, such as mentalizing (Ensink et al.). Finally, this Research Topic considers potential mechanisms for familial, intergenerational effects of maternal stress, such as parenting (Ahmad et al.).
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Pathways of risk, resilience, and recovery: impact of stress and trauma on women and girls |
| Location: | Switzerland |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1290535 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1290535 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Psychiatry, sex, gender, trauma, stress, biopsychosocial (BPS) model, SOCIAL DETERMINANTS, HEALTH, PTSD |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189260 |
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