Book contents
- The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease
- The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Section 1 Early life trauma: impact on health and disease
- Chapter 1 The history of early life trauma and abuse from the 1850s to the current time: how the past influences the present
- Chapter 2 Theepidemiology of early childhood trauma
- Chapter 3 Historical themes in the study of recovered and false memories of trauma
- Chapter 4 Early trauma, later outcome: results from longitudinal studies and clinical observations
- Part 1 Synopsis
- Chapter 5 Attachment dysregulation as hidden trauma in infancy: early stress, maternal buffering and psychiatric morbidity in young adulthood
- Chapter 6 Towards a developmental trauma disorder diagnosis for childhood interpersonal trauma
- Chapter 7 Complex adult sequelae of early life exposure to psychological trauma
- Chapter 8 Therelationship of adverse childhood experiences to adult medical disease, psychiatric disorders and sexual behavior: implications for healthcare
- Part 2 Synopsis
- Section 2 Biological approaches to early life trauma
- Section 3 Clinical perspectives: assessment and treatment of trauma spectrum disorders
- Epilogue
- Index
Chapter 2 - Theepidemiology of early childhood trauma
from Section 1 - Early life trauma: impact on health and disease
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2011
Book contents
- The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease
- The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Section 1 Early life trauma: impact on health and disease
- Chapter 1 The history of early life trauma and abuse from the 1850s to the current time: how the past influences the present
- Chapter 2 Theepidemiology of early childhood trauma
- Chapter 3 Historical themes in the study of recovered and false memories of trauma
- Chapter 4 Early trauma, later outcome: results from longitudinal studies and clinical observations
- Part 1 Synopsis
- Chapter 5 Attachment dysregulation as hidden trauma in infancy: early stress, maternal buffering and psychiatric morbidity in young adulthood
- Chapter 6 Towards a developmental trauma disorder diagnosis for childhood interpersonal trauma
- Chapter 7 Complex adult sequelae of early life exposure to psychological trauma
- Chapter 8 Therelationship of adverse childhood experiences to adult medical disease, psychiatric disorders and sexual behavior: implications for healthcare
- Part 2 Synopsis
- Section 2 Biological approaches to early life trauma
- Section 3 Clinical perspectives: assessment and treatment of trauma spectrum disorders
- Epilogue
- Index
Summary
This chapter describes the prevalence of early childhood trauma in the general population of the USA using data from the National Comorbidity Study-Replication (NCS-R). It discusses some of the methodological issues around assessing the prevalence of childhood trauma, focusing on estimates of child maltreatment as a specific example. The chapter explains the risk factors for childhood trauma. The prevalence of exposure to any traumatic event, to any other injury or shocking experience and for most specific event types did not significantly differ by race. Factors associated with greater risk of childhood trauma occur at the individual, family, neighborhood, local, regional and national level; the bulk of research focuses on individual and family factors. Individual factors associated with risk of childhood trauma include demographic descriptors such as sex, age and race/ethnicity, as well as health and behavioral characteristics, including mental health, substance use, sexuality and prior traumatization.
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- The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and DiseaseThe Hidden Epidemic, pp. 13 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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