title: Traumatic loss in a one-year-old girl.
abstract: This Grand Rounds presents the case of a girl who, at the age of 1 year, witnessed her mother's violent death. She was first seen by a child psychiatrist at age 4 years and has remained symptomatic for more than 5 years after the traumatic event. The case is discussed from the standpoint of the interrelationships among posttraumatic stress, memory, attachment, and mourning.
authors.affiliation: Division of Child Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, USA.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gaensbauer
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Chatoor
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Drell
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Siegel
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Zeanah
mesh_terms: D000300:Adoption / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000523:psychology; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D009769:Object Attachment; D011613:Psychotherapy; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D014754:Violence