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Psychological trauma in children and adolescents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jean Harris Hendriks  and
Martin Newman
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During the last decade, direct work with children who have experienced public disaster or private catastrophe, such as abuse, neglect and other intrafamilial crime, has led to the recognition that classifications of post-traumatic stress disorder are relevant to childhood psychopathology. Comorbidity is common. Traumatised children who also are bereaved or dislocated are hindered in mourning and in the capacity to sustain or form attachments. Adult psychopathology often may be linked with unrecognised or underestimated effects of psychological trauma during childhood and adolescence. This paper discusses therapeutic interventions, outlines research hypotheses and provides an introductory bibliography.

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Research Article
Information
Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 1 , Issue 6 , July 1995 , pp. 170 - 175
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1995 

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