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Risk Factors<br />

Risk Factors<br />

• extremity of environmental destruction<br />

• increased loss = higher distress<br />

• loss of family/friends<br />

• injury or life threat<br />

• relocation/displacement<br />

• loss of home/possessions<br />

• exposure to traumas in past<br />

• preexisting medical/psychological illness<br />

• chronic poverty, homelessness, unemployment,<br />

discrimination<br />

• recent/subsequent life stressors<br />

• e.g., single parenting, loss of job<br />

APA & NCPTSD

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