Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex and chronic disorder that causes
substantial distress and interferes with social and educational functioning. Consequently …

Youths who have been maltreated often experience symptoms of posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD), and this special population has received increased attention from …

Children and youth who have experienced foster care or orphanage-rearing have often
experienced complex developmental trauma, demonstrating an interactive set of …

Children react to severe and acute stress in ways that are very similar to adults. Until people
started to interview children directly, this was not obvious and initially it had been thought …

Important advances in understanding traumatic stress reactions in children and young
people have been made in recent years. The aim of this review was to synthesise selected …

A prospective longitudinal follow-up study (n= 59) of child and adolescent survivors of
physical assaults and motor vehicle accidents assessed whether cognitive processes …

This chapter is oriented toward the importance of the parent-child relational context and the
developmental traumatology model of child maltreatment. Thus the chapter departs …

Examining parent-child agreement for Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) and Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD) in children and adolescents is essential for informing the …

Background: Comparatively little is known about the cognitive appraisals and coping styles
of child road traffic accident (RTA) survivors that are associated with chronic post‐traumatic …

This study investigated the predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children
following a diagnosis of traumatic injury. Children (N= 76) aged between 7 and 13 who were …