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Verbally Mediated Childhood Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Philip A. Saigh*
Affiliation:
Doctoral Program in School Psychology, Box 445, Graduate Center, 33 West 42 Street, New York, NY 10036-8099, USA

Abstract

This report chronicles the verbally mediated traumatisation and subsequent PTSD in an 11-year-old girl. Information obtained from parental interviews, academic transcripts, anecdotal teacher comments, structured and unstructured interviews, and standardised anxiety, depression, and misconduct scales was used to highlight the unique distress of the patient.

Type
Brief Reports
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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