ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SOCIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND TRAUMA DISCLOSURE

Evaldas Kazlauskas, Paulina Želvienė, Jonas Eimontas, Goda Gegieckaitė Abstract Trauma disclosure can facilitate trauma recovery. However,survivors might be reluctant to talk about theirtraumatic experiences if they perceive that their experiencesare not acknowledged. We aimed to explorehow social acknowledgment is associated with traumadisclosure in a sample of Lithuanian trauma survivors.In total 189 survivors exposed to various…