Week 5: Gathering Reading Resources

My research question is, how can physical and social environment be an accommodation to help individuals in being vulnerable to communicate personal emotions and to fathom unrealized traumatic memories? To answer this, I am designing an interactive experience where users can be securely vulnerable about their feelings through a set of curated social interactions.”

In order to answer this question better, a good strategy is to narrow down the scope of my research and focus on learning about a specific group of people, which will be those within the Southeast Asian community who do have or might potentially have post traumatic stress disorder.

Research Plan

To learn more about the psychology behind traumatic memories as well as the importance of sharing within the Southeast Asian community, I need to break down and understand each strand of topic separately, in which then I can put the puzzles together later on as I design the “experience”. From the exercise last week with Ahmed, I was able to break the research down into five topic areas to focus every week:

• The psychology behind traumatic memories
• Silent mental health crisis in Southeast Asian community
• History of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) within Southeast Asian communities
• How to regulate emotions in a healthy way
• How physical environment affects our emotions

Reading Resources

I think last week’s lecture was very helpful and informative especially the one regarding accessing NYU libraries because the past few weeks I have been wondering which platform I should be using to search for quality secondary resources.

The psychology behind traumatic memories:

• Childhood Trauma and Psychological Distress: A Serial Mediation Model among Chinese Adolescents
• The relationship between cortisol reactivity and emotional brain function is differently moderated by childhood trauma, in bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and healthy individuals
• Association between Childhood Trauma and Suicidal Behavior in the General Population
• Healing Childhood Trauma: An Integrated Approach, Somatic Experiencing Meets Theraplay
• Getting to Know the Inner Self: Exploratory Study of Identity Oriented Psychotrauma Therapy — Experiences and Value From Multiple Perspectives

Silent mental health crisis in Southeast Asian community

• Honoring Differences: Cultural Issues in the Treatment of Trauma and Loss
• Depression, the silent killer, a South Asian perspective
• Exploring the potential use of patient and public involvement to strengthen Indonesian mental health care for people with psychosis: A qualitative exploration of the views of service users and carers
• Global Mental Health and Idioms of Distress: The Paradox of Culture-Sensitive Pathologization of Distress in Cambodia
• Proactive Community Occupational Therapy Service for Social Participation Development of Thai Adults with Depression: A Grounded Theory Study from Occupational Therapists’ Perspective
• Promoting mental health in Asia-Pacific: Systematic review focusing on Thailand and China
• The influence of culture on disaster mental health and psychosocial support interventions in Southeast Asia

History of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) within Southeast Asian communities

• Psychological and social interventions for mental health issues and disorders in Southeast Asia: a systematic review
• Trauma Stabilisation as a Sole Treatment Intervention for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Southeast Asia
• The therapeutic value of trauma stabilisation in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder — A Southeast Asian Study

How to regulate emotions in a healthy way

• Healthy and Unhealthy Emotion Regulation: Personality Processes, Individual Differences, and Life Span Development
• The relationship between demographics, behavioral and experiential engagement factors, and the use of artistic creative activities to regulate emotions
• Valuing emotional control in social anxiety disorder: A multimethod study of emotion beliefs and emotion regulation
• The simultaneous use of Emotional suppression and Situation selection to regulate emotions incrementally favors physiological responses

How physical environment affects our emotions

• Making Sense of Multi-Sensory Environments: A Scoping Review
• The Effect of Physical Enclosing on Negative Emotion Regulation
• Spacious Environments Make Us Tolerant — The Role of Emotion and Metaphor
• Responses to representations of the built environment : the influence of emotion, attention and perspective-taking
• Temporal Cues in Built Environments
• Impact of built environment design on emotion measured via neurophysiological correlates and subjective indicators: A systematic review