I am currently working on an exploratory research on the prevalence of Bangladeshi news journalists' post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I need a theoretical framework for it.
The lifetime prevalence rate of PTSD among journalists is 28.6 percent. Those who put themselves in different disasters as well as frequent war zones can attract for natural reasons PTSD. If you are a female and previously traumatized you are even more likely to get PTSD.
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New paper on"Mental Health Beliefs, Access, and Engagement with Military Sexual Trauma–Related Mental Health Care" says:
"Military sexual trauma (MST), or sexual assault and/or harassment that occurred while in the military, affects significant portions of both women and men Veterans. Approximately 41.5% of women and 4.0% of men who served during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) re- port MST.1 Surveillance data from the Veteran’s Health Administration (VHA) of users in 2020 indicate that 32.4% of women (141,365) and 1.9% of men (77,309) report a history of MST."
From my own work I would suggest any study separates the rates of PTSD among women and men, for women seem to have more sensitive nervous systems.
Have you considered Moral Injury as a helpful lens for your study? Or maybe even referencing it in connection with PTSD? If the root cause of Moral Injury is committing / experiencing a morally repugnant incident that violates your ethical world-view (Litz et al, 2009), this may actually be more common than PTSD (a trauma-based reaction, like being involved in an explosion) for journalists. The two phenomena are often confused - but the root cause is different. Most of the Moral Injury literature arises from military contexts - but there is more appearing from other public-service contexts like Healthcare. Good luck!
Psychotherapy for trauma desensitization and reprocessing began in the 1980s by the late U.S. psychologist Francine Shapiro who named it Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (later shortened to EMDR because eye movements are only one technique, sound and touch are the other two). The theoretical basis (assumption) is that the brain does not deal with (i.e., process) traumatic experiences the same way it does regular day-to-day experiences. Thus, the need for psychotherapy. This adaptive information processing technique involves bilateral stimulation of the senses while mentally focusing on a particular, relevant image or thought (which changes throughout the process). It has since been modified by others with the more recent ones being Body Awareness (it may have a variation of that name) and Brain Spotting. I am a certified EMDR therapist
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