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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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International Handbook of Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents

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The past decade has shown that children react to life-threatening Stressors with various forms of distress. Depression, anxiety, fears, and bereavement reactions as well as Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can occur. The form of PTSD varies according to the age of the child, and, sadly, the internal distress often goes unrecognized for long periods by parents and teachers. Indeed, one of the reasons that there was doubt as to whether PTSD occurred in children was that few investigators had asked the children themselves how they were affected.

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Yule, W. (1994). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. In: Ollendick, T.H., King, N.J., Yule, W. (eds) International Handbook of Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1498-9_12

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