Treatment of trauma- and abuse-related dissociative symptom disorders in children and adolescents.
OBJECTIVE
Dissociation is believed to be one of the most common underlying psychological processes among children and adolescents receiving mental health treatment, but most of the dissemination of information about dissociation has occurred among psychiatrists and psychologists.


OBJECTIVE
Modes of treatment for dissociation as it affects children and adolescents are described.


METHODS
Current research and practice scholarly articles on treatment of children and adolescents for dissociation and dissociative symptom disorders were accessed and critically reviewed.


CONCLUSIONS
Prognosis in children and adolescents can vary widely among patients and between the specific types of dissociation disorder; however, expert clinicians and researchers agree that early, intense treatment offers the greatest possibility of full recovery.
Weber
Scott
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Nursing Education Graduate Program, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. webersjm@pitt.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D001155:Art Therapy; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology; D003887:Desensitization, Psychologic; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D005133:Eye Movements; D005196:Family Therapy; D005864:Gestalt Therapy; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D008016:Life Change Events; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000458:organization & administration; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010989:Play Therapy; D011379:Prognosis; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D016896:Treatment Outcome