Introduction to the Special Section: Developmental Perspectives on Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Stress.

Autor: Kerig PK; Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of child & adolescent trauma [J Child Adolesc Trauma] 2023 May 17; Vol. 16 (2), pp. 381-390. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 17 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1007/s40653-023-00557-7
Abstrakt: This article provides an introduction and overview of the current special section devoted to developmental perspectives on trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress reactions. Although there have been many revisions to the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis in the four decades that have ensued since its inclusion in our diagnostic systems, and many decades of empirical and clinical work investigating the differential effects of traumatic stress on children and adolescents, a truly developmental perspective is still lacking in the diagnosis. In a call to address this gap, this article outlines principles of developmental psychopathology as applied to the phenomenology of trauma and points to potential developmental transformations in the expression of posttraumatic stress across developmental epochs. The introduction then goes on to describe the valuable contributions to the literature represented by the six teams of contributing authors to this present special section, in which they discuss stability and change in posttraumatic symptom expression across development, the current state of validation research on the proposed diagnosis of Developmental Trauma Disorder, complex symptom arrays in children who have been complexly traumatized, distinctions between Complex PTSD and emerging personality pathology, developmental perspectives on prolonged grief, and developmental considerations for understanding the intersection between trauma and moral injury. It is hoped that this collection of articles will serve to stimulate new research and inform effective interventions for young persons affected by traumatic stress.
Competing Interests: Conflict of interestI have no known conflicts of interest to disclose.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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