Cumulative trauma and symptom complexity in children: A path analysis

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• 作者：Monica Hodges ; Natacha Godbout ; John Briere ; Cheryl Lanktree ; Alicia Gilbert ; Nicole Taylor Kletzka
• 关键词：Cumulative trauma ; Children ; Symptom complexity ; Complex trauma
• 刊名：Child Abuse and Neglect
• 出版年：November, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：37
• 期：11
• 页码：891-898
• 全文大小：577 K

文摘

Multiple trauma exposures during childhood are associated with a range of psychological symptoms later in life. In this study, we examined whether the total number of different types of trauma experienced by children (cumulative trauma) is associated with the complexity of their subsequent symptomatology, where complexity is defined as the number of different symptom clusters simultaneously elevated into the clinical range. Children's symptoms in six different trauma-related areas (e.g., depression, anger, posttraumatic stress) were reported both by child clients and their caretakers in a clinical sample of 318 children. Path analysis revealed that accumulated exposure to multiple different trauma types predicts symptom complexity as reported by both children and their caretakers.