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Psychological injury - Wikipedia
A psychological injury is the psychological or psychiatric consequence of a traumatic event or physical injury. Such an injury might result from events such as abusive behavior, whistleblower retaliation, bullying, kidnapping, rape, motor vehicular collision or other negligent action.

Psychiatric Injury Law - LawTeacher.net
A claimant who becomes mentally ill because of the shock to his nervous system caused by an incident that either threatened his own safety or involved witnessing exceptionally distressing injuries to others could in certain circumstances recover compensation for psychiatric injury.

How shocking: compensating secondary victims for psychiatric injury ...
When those whom the law terms ‘secondary victims’ – i.e. the passive and unwilling witnesses of injury, or of the threat of it, to others – seek compensation through the courts for the psychiatric injuries that they have suffered (traditionally but confusingly referred to as ‘nervous shock’ claims), there would in theory be the ...

What Is Psychiatric Injury and Is It Compensable?
A psychiatric injury is any cognitive or emotional injury that regularly affects your daily life and that occurred in the workplace or on the job.” However, a psychiatric injury is not the same as daily stress.

PRINCIPLES, ACCIDENTS AND EXCEPTIONS: PSYCHIATRIC INJURY IN TORT
But even in archetypal “witnessing” cases, a psychiatric injury claim is not wholly derivative or parasitic, unlike claims under the Fatal Accidents Act. It has hybrid elements (as Lord Burrows explains in the fullest analysis of the question at [212]–[223]).

A comprehensive guide to proving psychiatric injury
A psychiatric injury is when the person has suffered a mental trauma as a result of an accident, sudden shock or a traumatic event. Examples of psychiatric injuries are Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Adjustment Disorder and depression.

Psychiatric injury - Oxford Reference
A recognized psychiatric illness (such as post-traumatic stress disorder) that is caused by sudden shock, as distinct from normal grief, sorrow, or anxiety. There is no general duty of care for psychiatric injury.

Understanding and Evaluating Mental Damages - Psychiatric Times
Understanding the nature of the injury is extremely important, as is ascertaining whether the injury occurred as claimed. A percentage of plaintiffs will grossly misrepresent or fabricate an injury; it is more common, though, for individuals to embellish or exaggerate a claim.

5. Psychiatric injury | Law Trove
This chapter discusses the law on psychiatric injury. Psychiatric injury which is not derived from physical injury is a type of damage which is not always recoverable in negligence. It is an aspect of duty of care.

Introducing Psychological Injury and Law - Springer
Psychology injury and law is a specialized forensic psychology field that concerns reaching legal thresholds for actionable negligent or related injuries having a psychological component, such as for posttraumatic stress disorder, chronic pain, and mild traumatic brain injury.

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