Ethical aspects of research on psychological trauma

Research in the area of psychological trauma raises a number of complex ethical issues. These include questions about unjustified medicalization of suffering, retraumatization of survivors, the morality of also investigating perpetrators of trauma, and neglecting to provide appropriate intervention....

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Main Authors: Stein, Dan J., Herman, Allen, Kaminer, Debra, Rataemane, Solomon, Seedat, Soraya, Kessler, Ronald C., Williams, David
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Les Laboratoires Servier 2000
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181588/
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spelling pubmed-31815882011-10-27 Ethical aspects of research on psychological trauma Stein, Dan J. Herman, Allen Kaminer, Debra Rataemane, Solomon Seedat, Soraya Kessler, Ronald C. Williams, David Basic Research Research in the area of psychological trauma raises a number of complex ethical issues. These include questions about unjustified medicalization of suffering, retraumatization of survivors, the morality of also investigating perpetrators of trauma, and neglecting to provide appropriate intervention. We discuss some of these issues against the backdrop of a study of trauma in South Africa, and the recent work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in that country. Les Laboratoires Servier 2000-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3181588/ /pubmed/22033592 Text en Copyright: © 2000 LLS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Stein, Dan J.
Herman, Allen
Kaminer, Debra
Rataemane, Solomon
Seedat, Soraya
Kessler, Ronald C.
Williams, David
spellingShingle Stein, Dan J.
Herman, Allen
Kaminer, Debra
Rataemane, Solomon
Seedat, Soraya
Kessler, Ronald C.
Williams, David
Ethical aspects of research on psychological trauma
author_facet Stein, Dan J.
Herman, Allen
Kaminer, Debra
Rataemane, Solomon
Seedat, Soraya
Kessler, Ronald C.
Williams, David
author_sort Stein, Dan J.
title Ethical aspects of research on psychological trauma
title_short Ethical aspects of research on psychological trauma
title_full Ethical aspects of research on psychological trauma
title_fullStr Ethical aspects of research on psychological trauma
title_full_unstemmed Ethical aspects of research on psychological trauma
title_sort ethical aspects of research on psychological trauma
description Research in the area of psychological trauma raises a number of complex ethical issues. These include questions about unjustified medicalization of suffering, retraumatization of survivors, the morality of also investigating perpetrators of trauma, and neglecting to provide appropriate intervention. We discuss some of these issues against the backdrop of a study of trauma in South Africa, and the recent work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in that country.
publisher Les Laboratoires Servier
publishDate 2000
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181588/
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