Quality of early care and childhood trauma: A prospective study of developmental pathways to dissociation

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 197, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 383-390

  Dutra, Lissa ^a   Bureau, Jean Francois ^b   Holmes, Bjarne ^b   Lyubchik, Amy ^b   Lyons Ruth, Karlen ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CAMBRIDGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abuse; Attachment; Dissociation; Longitudinal; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME; HUMAN; INFANCY; LABORATORY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; SELF REPORT; VERBAL HOSTILITY; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EMOTION; FOLLOW UP; LIFE EVENT; OBJECT RELATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; VIDEORECORDING;

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARENTING; PARENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649391058     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181a653b7     Document Type: Article

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