OBJECTIVE: To test the hypotheses that both violence and traumatic stress symptoms are
associated with negative health status among poor preschool children. STUDY DESIGN …

This research explored the relationship between exposure to violence and psychological
stress among adolescents. It focused on the cumulative experience of recurring community …

Abstract The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is a quantitative model of
psychopathology. HiTOP proposes that trauma-related distress is a facet of Internalizing …

Traumatic events can seriously disrupt the development of preschool children. Yet few
studies capture developmentally specific examples of traumas and the expression of …

Background Up to 90% of justice-involved youth report exposure to some type of traumatic
event. On average, 70% of youth meet criteria for a mental health disorder with …

Objective: Meta-analyze the literature on posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms in youths post-
disaster. Method: Meta-analytic synthesis of the literature (k= 96 studies; N total= 74,154) …

The objective of this study was to investigate loss and the experience of emotional distress
through a series of three studies. In Study 1, results indicated that when controlling for the …

Objective: The authors prospectively examined childhood antecedents of exposure to
traumatic events to estimate the risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among those …

Since Kempe's (Kempe, Silverman, Steele, Droegemueller, & Silver, 1962) groundbreaking
work called attention to the battered child syndrome, research designed to document the …

BACKGROUND: Recent literature has indicated that exposure to multiple traumatic events in
adults is associated with high levels of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and …