Monday, 19 November 2012

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder


A Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) manifests itself in children and adolescents vary according to their age. Please refer to the state of the cognitive, affective and social development of those affected.

That said Ingo Spitczok Brisinski of the Board of the Professional Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy in Germany (BKJPP). "Traumatized children aged between seven and 14 years, usually try to avoid thoughts, feelings, and talking about the trauma., In many cases they are unable to remember all aspects of the traumatic event," he says.

Sometimes they would take the future shortened or incomplete believed true, for example, no longer from ever finish school or grow up. "Younger children whose language development is not yet as pronounced divide, sometimes with drawings or play behavior, which is then repeated and little hedonistic aspects of the traumatic event represents" added Spitczok added by Brisinski.

Emotional numbness

A typical PTSD symptoms - sometimes for weeks after the traumatic event - is the appearance of emotional numbness. You'll clearly by feelings of alienation, lack of emotion and a decreased interest in previously important things, says the expert. More trauma symptoms were irritability, nervousness or aggression, and sleeping or concentrating.

Can trigger PTSD in children and adolescents events that threaten the health and lives of those affected, such as natural disasters, accidents, serious illness, and sexual or physical violence. Stresses such as bullying or the divorce of parents usually lead not to PTSD, but may consider other psychological disturbances.

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