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 4 - Early trauma, later outcome: results from longitudinal studies and clinical observations
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 explores the effects of early adverse experiences by reporting on long-term outcomes of childhood trauma. It focuses on physical abuse by the child's parent. The chapter covers a more psychologically severe form of abuse: attacks by someone from whom the dependent child expects protection and caring. It compares the outcomes at 30 years of abused children with the non-abused children. Three protective factors interrupted the perpetuating abuse by the mothers: childhood emotional support from an alternative adult, psychotherapy for at least 6 months or a contemporary adult supportive and satisfying relationship. Abuse may involve a parent incompetent at caregiving, or too troubled to provide protective and sensitive childrearing. Its symptomatic effects vary with developmental age, but, invariably, abuse diminishes the more optimal possibilities of the child well into adulthood.
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- The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and DiseaseThe Hidden Epidemic, pp. 33 - 42Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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