Book contents
- The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease
- The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Section 1 Early life trauma: impact on health and disease
- Chapter 1 The history of early life trauma and abuse from the 1850s to the current time: how the past influences the present
- Chapter 2 Theepidemiology of early childhood trauma
- Chapter 3 Historical themes in the study of recovered and false memories of trauma
- Chapter 4 Early trauma, later outcome: results from longitudinal studies and clinical observations
- Part 1 Synopsis
- Chapter 5 Attachment dysregulation as hidden trauma in infancy: early stress, maternal buffering and psychiatric morbidity in young adulthood
- Chapter 6 Towards a developmental trauma disorder diagnosis for childhood interpersonal trauma
- Chapter 7 Complex adult sequelae of early life exposure to psychological trauma
- Chapter 8 Therelationship of adverse childhood experiences to adult medical disease, psychiatric disorders and sexual behavior: implications for healthcare
- Part 2 Synopsis
- Section 2 Biological approaches to early life trauma
- Section 3 Clinical perspectives: assessment and treatment of trauma spectrum disorders
- Epilogue
- Index
Chapter 7 - Complex adult sequelae of early life exposure to psychological trauma
from Section 1 - Early life trauma: impact on health and disease
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2011
Book contents
- The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease
- The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Section 1 Early life trauma: impact on health and disease
- Chapter 1 The history of early life trauma and abuse from the 1850s to the current time: how the past influences the present
- Chapter 2 Theepidemiology of early childhood trauma
- Chapter 3 Historical themes in the study of recovered and false memories of trauma
- Chapter 4 Early trauma, later outcome: results from longitudinal studies and clinical observations
- Part 1 Synopsis
- Chapter 5 Attachment dysregulation as hidden trauma in infancy: early stress, maternal buffering and psychiatric morbidity in young adulthood
- Chapter 6 Towards a developmental trauma disorder diagnosis for childhood interpersonal trauma
- Chapter 7 Complex adult sequelae of early life exposure to psychological trauma
- Chapter 8 Therelationship of adverse childhood experiences to adult medical disease, psychiatric disorders and sexual behavior: implications for healthcare
- Part 2 Synopsis
- Section 2 Biological approaches to early life trauma
- Section 3 Clinical perspectives: assessment and treatment of trauma spectrum disorders
- Epilogue
- Index
Summary
This chapter focuses on the sequelae in adulthood of traumatic victimization experienced in early childhood (that is, infancy, toddlerhood, and early school years). Adult survivors of early childhood traumatic victimization are at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and for heightened anxiety, depression and suicidality, addiction, personality disorders, antisocial or violent behavior, serious mental illness and sexual disorders. Several methodological limitations suggest caution in interpreting the findings from studies on the effects of childhood traumatic victimization on adult functioning and health. The impact of psychological trauma and the etiology and course of post-traumatic disorders differ for males and females in several respects, such that gender may moderate the adverse effects of early life psychological trauma. Minority ethno-racial background is consistently associated with increased risk of childhood psychological trauma, including loss, domestic violence and sexual abuse.
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- The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and DiseaseThe Hidden Epidemic, pp. 69 - 76Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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