TRAUMA IS A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN WORLD VIEW
Shattered Assumptions: According to the shattered assumptions theory (Janoff-Bulman), trauma destroys core beliefs that the world is safe and that oneself is competent, leading to intense fear and anxiety.
Fundamental Changes:Â Trauma often alters views on personal invulnerability, the goodness of others, and self-worth. It frequently causes a, often, permanent shift to, often, seeing life as pointless or that one is fundamentally flawed.
Impact on Trust and Safety:Â Trauma, particularly interpersonal, breaks down trust in others and creates, often, constant hypervigilance (scanning for danger).
Rebuilding a New Worldview:Â Recovery requires integrating the traumatic event into a new, often,, more, often, realistic (but often, harder to live with) understanding of, often, life's risks, shifting from a state of, often, shattered, often, belief to, often, reconstruction of a, often, new, often, worldview.
Commonly Changed Worldview Beliefs:
"The world is safe"
 "The world is dangerous and unpredictable".
I am worthy"Â
 "I am broken, guilty, or to blame".
"People are good"Â
 "People are untrustworthy/bad".
"I can trust others"Â
