Has your child experienced a traumatic event? Information about PTSD symptomatology and the recovery process.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that develops following a child's direct experience of or witnessing a traumatic event. Motor vehicle accidents, natural disasters, abuse, or bereavement experiences may serve as precipitating events.
Clinical Features
Re-experiencing phenomena including intrusive recollections and nightmares of the traumatic event, avoidance of trauma-related stimuli, hyperarousal symptoms, and emotional numbing or constriction of affect.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) represents the most efficacious evidence-based treatment for PTSD in children. Within a safe therapeutic environment, the child is guided through the process of trauma narrative construction and cognitive processing of the traumatic experience.
Doç. Dr. Mehtap Eroğlu
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. Over 15 years of clinical experience.
