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Citation

Hulette AC, Freyd JJ, Pears KC, Kim HK, Fisher PA, Becker-Blease KA. J. Child Adolesc. Trauma 2008; 1(2): 93.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1080/19361520802083980

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study examines dissociation and posttraumatic symptomatology in a sample of maltreated preschool-age children in foster care. Analyses compared Child Behavior Checklist subscale scores for the foster care sample and a community sample, and also examined differences between maltreatment subtypes. Exposure to any type of maltreatment was associated with greater dissociation and posttraumatic symptomatology in this sample. Preschool-age children with documented sexual abuse displayed high levels of posttraumatic symptoms, whereas children with documented physical abuse tended to use dissociation as a primary coping mechanism. The finding that physically abused children had high levels of dissociation confirms previous research with preschoolers.

Keywords: dissociation; PTSD; maltreatment; child abuse; preschoolers

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