Publications by authors named "Kathleen Gorski"
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- Fear and trauma-related conditions like PTSD and social phobia often lead to avoidance behaviors, causing social and occupational challenges, and current treatments have limitations, including high dropout rates and a focus primarily on symptom reduction.
- This paper presents an innovative augmented reality exposure therapy (ARET) technology that aims to improve social and occupational functioning by immersing patients in realistic social scenarios within their own environments.
- The ARET system incorporates AI-driven technology and customizable experiences, providing strong engagement and emotional responses, showing promise in improving treatment outcomes for patients, especially first responders with PTSD.
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- War and forced migration lead to trauma in refugees, which can have long-term psychological effects, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety.
- A study of 77 Syrian and Iraqi adult refugees examined how different types of trauma, especially victimization, affect psychological symptoms over time after arriving in the U.S.
- Results indicated that victimization significantly worsens PTSD symptoms more than cumulative trauma, highlighting the need for targeted interventions for refugees based on their trauma experiences.
Objective: Trauma exposure-a contributor to psychological risk for refugee youth-is typically assessed using cumulative indices; however, recent findings indicate that trauma type may better predict psychological outcomes. This study investigated the utility of two methods of classifying trauma exposure-cumulative trauma and exposure to specific types of trauma (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: War and natural disasters lead to forced migration - and increased risk of adverse psychological outcomes - in approximately 1% of the global population. Though recent years have brought a greater understanding of the consequences of war exposure on mental health outcomes for refugee children, little is known about the longitudinal and developmental impact of these experiences on youth.
Aims: The aim of this study was to assess the effect of direct exposure to war and/or combat on trajectories of symptoms related to anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Syrian and Iraqi refugee youth following resettlement.
Pre-migration trauma, a psychological risk factor for refugees, is often measured using cumulative indices. However, recent research suggests that trauma subtypes, rather than cumulative trauma, may better predict psychological outcomes. This study investigated the predictive utility of trauma subtypes in the assessment of refugee mental health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFResearch With Refugees and Vulnerable Populations in a Post-COVID World: Challenges and Opportunities.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry
November 2022
At the Stress, Trauma and Anxiety Research Clinic (STARC) at Wayne State University in Detroit, we are currently amid data collection for a longitudinal prospective study of Syrian refugee children and their parents. Funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, our goal is to understand the impact of exposure to war trauma and the stress of migration on symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression, as well as the neurobiological, epigenetic, and environmental correlates of risk and resilience. Like many research groups around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic brought our work to a screeching halt.
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