Acute stress disorder in children related to violence.
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.
Jonker
Barbara
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Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI, USA. barbarajonker@yahoo.com
Hamrin
Vanya
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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*