title: Typology of post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents.
abstract: Results obtained from clinical and psychopathological studies of 161 patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) aged 3-18 years with symptom durations from one month to four years are presented. Four major clinical variants of the type of PTSD were identified in children and adolescents: insomniac( 34.8%), phobic (23.6%), psychopathic-like (21.7%), and asthenic-depressive (19.9%). These variants, differing in terms of course and prognosis, occurred at different frequencies in different age and ethnic groups; there were no gender-related differences.
authors.affiliation: V. P. Serbskii State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, Moscow, Russia.
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authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Portnova
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017677:Age Distribution; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000145:classification* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*