Type and timing of adverse childhood experiences differentially affect severity of PTSD, dissociative and depressive symptoms in adult inpatients

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Schalinski, Inga ^a   Teicher, Martin H ^b,c   Nischk, Daniel ^d   Hinderer, Eva ^d   Müller, Oliver ^d   Rockstroh, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Center for Psychiatry   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adult psychopathology; Childhood adversities; Depression; Dose dependent; PTSD; Shutdown dissociation; Type and timing

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALTREATMENT AND ABUSE CHRONOLOGY OF EXPOSURE; NEGLECT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHUTDOWN DISSOCIATION; SYMPTOM; VULNERABLE POPULATION; CHILD ABUSE SURVIVOR; CHILDHOOD TRAUMA SURVIVOR; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; EMOTION; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ADVERSE EVENTS; DEPRESSION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84982244556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-016-1004-5     Document Type: Article

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