Post-traumatic symptoms in abused children

doi:10.1002/JTS.2490010407

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DOI: 10.1002/JTS.2490010407

Post-traumatic symptoms in abused children

Published Oct 1, 1988 · J. Goodwin

Journal of Traumatic Stress

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Abstract

A variety of symptoms have been described as sequelae of physical and sexual abuse in childhood. This review suggests that some of these symptoms can be understood as developmentally mediated manifestations of post-traumatic disorders. Like traumatized combat or concentration camp survivors, severely abused children develop anxiety, compulsive repetitions, sleep disturbances and depression, ego constriction, and disturbed expressions of anger. The example of incest trauma illustrates how developmental transformations of childhood post-traumatic symptoms can produce the varying patterns of presenting psychopathology seen in adult survivors.

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Abused children develop anxiety, compulsive repetitions, sleep disturbances, depression, ego constriction, and disturbed expressions of anger, similar to adult survivors of trauma.

PopulationOlder adults (50-71 years)

Sample size24

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