Outpatient Clinic Identification of Trauma Symptoms in Children in Foster CareFoster careTraumaToxic stressAs understanding of the impact of trauma on children has grown, there has been increasing interest in the use of screening the medical setting to identify which children at risk may be ...
Child mental health researchers often focus on interventions that improve externalizing problems (i.e., disruptive, aggressive, and impulsive behaviors), due to the relationship between children’s externalizing behaviors and social, emotional, and academic disparities. School-based mental health counselors...
Being depressed, losing interest in previously fun activities, having suicidal thoughts Complaining of physical symptoms Thoughts of guilt or revenge relating to the event What causes trauma and abuse? The following increase the risk of a child experiencing trauma after a difficult event: ...
Children exposed to repeated interpersonal trauma often develop symptoms that exceed those documented in criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and are better described with the emerging concept of developmental trauma disorder (DTD). This study examines complex trauma symptoms in a sample ...
Trauma can make children feel agitated, troubled, nervous, and on high alert — symptoms that can be mistaken for ADHD. Inattention in children with trauma may also make them disassociate, which can look like a lack of focus — another hallmark symptom of ADHD. The fact that ADHD and child...
Gaza psychiatrist Fadel Abu Heen reported: "Children have begun to exhibit severe trauma symptoms like convulsions, bed-wetting, fear, aggressive behavior, nervousness and an unwillingness to leave their parents' side." The toll is devastating, with over 4,100 Palestinians killed in Gaza, ...
With respect to hospital-based trauma work, we suggest the following recommendations: Professionals must be alert to the presence of acute stress symptoms in any child or parent after all injury incidents. These symptoms may occur in any injured child regardless of age, gender, injury severity, ...
47 children who suffered from severe PTSD (mean CAPS trauma symptoms score 65.5) and who had experienced a mean number of six different types of traumatic events, were randomly enrolled to receive six manualised treatment sessions of either KIDNET, a trauma-focussed, short-term therapy with ...
This is one of the first books to present a systematic treatment approach, grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy, for traumatized children and their families. Provided is a comprehensive framework for assessing posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, and other symptoms; developing a flexibl...
Objective: To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Swedish version of Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children (TSCYC). Method: The study was composed of a total of 629 children—296 girls and 333 boys—aged 3–11, from a non-clinical populatio