"The Quiet Room" is much more than a portrait of an adorable child coping with a potentially traumatic family crisis.

The even application of sunless tanners continues to be a potentially traumatic part of the self-tanning process.

Bonanno's research has shown that universal counseling by grief counselors after potentially traumatic events does more harm than good.

In other words, not all people who experience a potentially traumatic event will actually become psychologically traumatized.

A potentially traumatic process, she acknowledged, unsupported by much clinical data.

"Perhaps I'll allow something of the kind in a future experiment, but for now I believe it would be too . . . potentially traumatic."

The trouble is that the moment turns out to be both intensely beautiful and potentially traumatic.

Knowing that she had acted allowed at least one of my Greek storytellers to transform a potentially traumatic experience into bonding through shared laughter.

Large numbers of people in this country have been exposed to potentially traumatic events.

Some girls are embarrassed about wearing a bra and resist parental pressure to take this step, turning the event into a potentially traumatic experience.