Aims & Scope

Traumas (ISSN 2673-7477) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles, critical reviews, short communications, etc., on all aspects of the interdisciplinary area of traumatic injury and psychological trauma research. Traumas focuses on how humans deal with physical injury and psychological trauma in a scientific and humanistic way.

Research fields of interest include but are not limited to the following areas.

Physical Trauma:

Injury control
Prevention of injury
Care of injury
Rehabilitation of injury
Physical impairment
Physical disability
Sport injury
Practice of trauma surgery
Acute care surgery
Emergency surgery
Orthopaedic trauma
Neurotrauma

Emotional and Psychological Trauma:

Bullying
Community violence
Disasters
Early childhood trauma
Intimate partner violence
Medical trauma
Physical abuse
Refugee trauma
Sexual abuse
Terrorism and violence
Traumatic grief
Complex trauma

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Copyright / Open Access

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