title: Acute stress disorder in children related to violence.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Unidentified and untreated acute stress responses in children may result in chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), other serious psychiatric disorders, and/or developmental arrest.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To review and identify gaps in current literature on acute stress disorder (ASD) in children and examine current treatments.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review of the
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  More developmentally appropriate, standardized measurement instruments are needed. Future research must focus on prospective studies of children exposed to trauma in order to better understand the association between ASD and PTSD. Future studies must include children at different developmental stages.
authors.affiliation: Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI, USA. barbarajonker@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jonker
authors.forename: Vanya
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hamrin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D006801:Humans; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D040701:Stress Disorders, Traumatic, Acute / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*