Accumulated childhood trauma and symptom complexity

Journal of Traumatic Stress - Tập 21 Số 2 - Trang 223-226 - 2008
John Briere1, Stacey Kaltman2, Bonnie L. Green2
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network
2Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical School, Washington, DC.

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AbstractThe relationship between accumulated exposure to different types of traumatic events (cumulative trauma) in childhood and the total number of different types of symptomatology reported (symptom complexity) in adulthood was examined in a sample of 2,453 female university students. There was a linear relationship between the number of trauma types experienced by participants before 18 and symptom complexity. This effect remained even when controlling for specific traumatic events, suggesting a generalized effect of cumulative trauma.

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Journal of Traumatic Stress

Tập 21 Số 2

223-226

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