Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children: Its Identification and Treatment in a Residential Setting for Emotionally Disturbed Youth

✍ Scribed by Joan S. Doyle; Sharon K. Bauer

• Book ID: 102925695
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 708 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490020304

✦ Synopsis

In the'pasr 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. Tkis 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-ofhome placements are highlighted as a hereto fore unrecognized contributor to PTSD in children.