traumagenic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /tɹɔː.məˈd͡ʒɛ.nɪk/ (UK)
- (General-American) audio
- /tɹaʊ.məˈd͡ʒɛ.nɪk/ (UK)
- /tɹaʊ.məˈd͡ʒɛ.nɪk/ (US)
- /tɹɑ.məˈd͡ʒɛ.nɪk/ (cot-caught-merger)
- /tɹɔ.məˈd͡ʒɛ.nɪk/ (US)
Etymology
From trauma + -genic (“generating; generated by”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) That leads to trauma; trauma-forming.
Risk factors will not be realised in the context does not support or trigger them. Oppressive, traumagenic, and trauma-triggering contexts are likely to release processes that realise the negative resource cycles linked with mental health deterioration […] trauma responses to either reminders/triggers or current traumagenic contexts. […]
2022 March 10, Phil Willmot, Lawrence Jones, Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice, Routledge, →ISBN:
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(not-comparable, qualifier:multiplicity slang) Of a system (“set of alters of a person”): having become multiple due to psychological trauma.
We weren't going to do this, but it needs to be said. Get ready for a thread, it's time to wade into some syscourse on Main. ¶ Let's start by making one thing perfectly clear: we are a traumagenic system.
2019 February 8, @WanderingChord, Twitter: