Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder In Adolescents
Post-Traumatic Stress disorder is a difficult subject to handle, in most cases PTSD can be very hard to diagnose. That is why researchers and scientists created different ways to test the client. In many cases PTSD can go years without being diagnose in a person. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) a condition resulting from a severe traumatic experience, leading to a long-lasting state of frequent distressing recollections (flashbacks) and nightmares about the traumatic event, avoidance of reminders of it, and exaggerated arousal in response to noises and other stimuli. In many situations, children and adolescents witness and are victims of a specific event such as, automobile accidents, sexual assault, family violence, and other types
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The study consisted of seven hundred and thirty-two children adolescents ages range from seventeen to eighteen who had been living in foster homes for half or all their lifetime. The researchers used participants four hundred and seventeen African American and two hundred twenty-six Caucasian. In this case the clinicians used the composite international diagnostic interview (CIDI). This test is available in twelve month and lifetime versions, both can be administered in forms of pen and paper and computerized. A later version of the CIDI is more suitable for self-reported and self-administered for clients who cooperate during the interview. The CIDI is available in different languages around the world. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), International Classification of Disease, Tenth Edition (ICD-10) and World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview (WHO-CIDI) are crossed reference when diagnosing each client when diagnosis is reported with an outlier to main database. The study showed that rape, tortured, victim of terroristic threat attack, and molestation were the highest traumas reported to the clinicians. Making the specific trauma least likely to be associated in a lifetime PTSD diagnosis was direct combat. Amongst all traumatic events Caucasian reported the highest on trauma exposure than African-American participants which were eligible lifetime traumatic under the DSM-IV. Children and adolescent were placed with immediate family members or with foster care families whom abuse and neglect the children from ages eleven to eighteen. This study was done to adolescents exiting the welfare system and by the time they leave the welfare system most of the children and adolescent have been diagnosed not with only one but several
The study consisted of seven hundred and thirty-two children adolescents ages range from seventeen to eighteen who had been living in foster homes for half or all their lifetime. The researchers used participants four hundred and seventeen African American and two hundred twenty-six Caucasian. In this case the clinicians used the composite international diagnostic interview (CIDI). This test is available in twelve month and lifetime versions, both can be administered in forms of pen and paper and computerized. A later version of the CIDI is more suitable for self-reported and self-administered for clients who cooperate during the interview. The CIDI is available in different languages around the world. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), International Classification of Disease, Tenth Edition (ICD-10) and World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview (WHO-CIDI) are crossed reference when diagnosing each client when diagnosis is reported with an outlier to main database. The study showed that rape, tortured, victim of terroristic threat attack, and molestation were the highest traumas reported to the clinicians. Making the specific trauma least likely to be associated in a lifetime PTSD diagnosis was direct combat. Amongst all traumatic events Caucasian reported the highest on trauma exposure than African-American participants which were eligible lifetime traumatic under the DSM-IV. Children and adolescent were placed with immediate family members or with foster care families whom abuse and neglect the children from ages eleven to eighteen. This study was done to adolescents exiting the welfare system and by the time they leave the welfare system most of the children and adolescent have been diagnosed not with only one but several