Background Youth in foster care are more likely than non-foster care youth to experience
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While research has identified maltreatment as a risk …

Purpose Youth in foster care represent a highly traumatized population. However, trauma
research on this population has focused primarily on maltreatment rather than the full …

Little is known about the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adult alumni
of foster care and its demographic and contextual correlates. This is one of the first studies to …

Background In DSM 5, three disorders are related to trauma and/or maltreatment: Post-
traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and Disinhibited …

Background: Children and adolescents in foster care often experience many co-occurring
subtypes of maltreatment. However, little is known about different combinations of …

Very little research has focused on rates of trauma exposure for youth in treatment foster
care (TFC). Available research has utilized record review for assessing exposure, which …

The majority of youth in the foster care system have been removed from their homes as
means of protection against parental maltreatment. Studies have shown, however, that foster …

Maltreatment type, severity, and chronicity are predictors of poor youth outcomes, yet youth
reported perpetrators of abuse have gone largely unstudied. Little is known about variation …

Few longitudinal studies have analyzed how violence exposure (eg child maltreatment,
witnessing community violence) influence both externalizing and Post-Traumatic Stress …

This longitudinal study explored the unique profiles of maltreatment among youth in the child
welfare system and examined their relation to mental health outcomes over time. We …