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Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children: Its Identification and Treatment in a Residential Setting for Emotionally Disturbed Youth
Author(s) -
Doyle Joan S.,
Bauer Sharon K.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1002/jts.2490020304
Subject(s) - neglect , sexual abuse , psychology , child abuse , psychiatry , traumatic stress , clinical psychology , modalities , victimology , treatment modality , injury prevention , poison control , medicine , medical emergency , social science , surgery , sociology
In the past 5 years residential programs for emotionally disturbed youth have encountered increasingly difficult‐to‐treat youngsters. These children who frequently are products of physical/sexual/emotional abuse, neglect and multiple out‐of‐home placements, often presented with severe human trauma responses, but post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was not diagnosed. This paper describes how one residential treatment center correctly identified those children referred having PTSD, developed effective treatment modalities for this syndrome in children and networked with other agencies involved in research and treatment of PTSD. Multiple out‐of‐home placements are highlighted as a heretofore unrecognized contributor to PTSD in children.