Medical procedures as a source of trauma.
Many medical procedures, while necessary and appropriate, may be experienced by a child or adolescent as a trauma, with the medical personnel considered as perpetrators in collusion with the parents. The medical procedures and the conditions requiring them are seldom the focus of routine history-taking or therapeutic process. Nevertheless, the long-range effects of these events may have serious and adverse effects on future development and psychopathology. The author presents several clinical examples.
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St. Louis University School of Medicine, MO, USA.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000523:psychology*