Addressing childhood trauma in a developmental context

Addressing childhood trauma in a developmental context

With the anticipated publication of the DSM-5 in May 2013, much reflection and work has been done on reviewing existing psychiatric nomenclature including, but not limited to the field of traumatic exposure. Traditionally, understanding of the psychiatric and psychological effects of trauma have been developed from studies with adults and then applied to trauma-exposed children with some modifi...

CHILDHOOD TRAUMA: ATTACHMENT, LOSS AND GRIEF 2.1 Trauma in Childhood

Childhood Trauma Linked to Adult Waterpipe Smoking: A Survey of Health-Science Students in Iran

Developmental prosopagnosia in childhood.

Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is defined by severe face recognition problems resulting from a failure to develop the necessary visual mechanisms for processing faces. While there is a growing literature on DP in adults, little has been done to study this disorder in children. The profound impact of abnormal face perception on social functioning and the general lack of awareness of childhood ...

Quality of early care and childhood trauma: a prospective study of developmental pathways to dissociation.

Kihlstrom (2005) has recently called attention to the need for prospective longitudinal studies of dissociation. The present study assesses quality of early care and childhood trauma as predictors of dissociation in a sample of 56 low-income young adults followed from infancy to age 19. Dissociation was assessed with the Dissociative Experiences Scale; quality of early care was assessed by obse...