Spirituality, self-blame, and trauma symptoms among adolescents waiting for treatment after disclosing sexual abuse.

Background: Adolescents who have been sexually abused commonly experience trauma symptoms, and many spend considerable time waiting for treatment.

Objective: This study examines the extent to which adolescent perceptions of divine spiritual support, divine spiritual struggles, and self-blame collected during a screening assessment predict trauma symptoms at the beginning of treatment.

Participants And Setting: Participants were 224 adolescents (92.

Mothers' Violence Experiences and Provision of Emotional Support Following Child Sexual Abuse.

Emotional support from a non-offending caregiver, often the child's mother, is theorized to help buffer children from the consequences of child sexual abuse (CSA). However, many mothers struggle to provide effective emotional support, suggesting it may be important to assess for factors related to mothers' abilities to support their child. CSA frequently occurs in families that have experienced other types of violence, including intimate partner violence (IPV), and many mothers have their own personal history of child abuse.

Large-Scale Evaluation of Satisfaction, Intent to Use, and Confidence with an Online Learning Course for a Well-Established, Evidence-Based Trauma Treatment: TFCBTWeb2.0.

Web-courses for learning evidence-based treatments (EBTs) are increasingly used to improve the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practice in psychology. Most research on web-courses has focused on engagement and knowledge acquisition, and limited research has evaluated learner satisfaction with training and intent to use EBTs. Further, even when aspects of satisfaction and learner intentions are examined, factors that may contribute to these variables are often overlooked.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Adults in Communities With Mass Violence Incidents.

Importance: Mass violence incidents (MVIs) are prevalent in the US and can have profound and long-lasting psychological consequences on direct survivors, but their outcomes among the broader communities where the MVI occurred are unknown.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of and factors associated with past-year and current posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among adults in communities that experienced an MVI.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This cross-sectional survey was completed between February and September 2020 with a household probability sample of adults from 6 communities that had experienced an MVI between 2015 and 2019: Dayton, Ohio; El Paso, Texas; Parkland, Florida; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; San Bernadino, California; and Virginia Beach, Virginia.