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Diagnostic, demographic, memory quality, and cognitive variables associated with acute stress disorder in children and adolescents.

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Meiser-Stedman, Richard, Dalgleish, Tim, Smith, Patrick, Yule, William, Glucksman, Edward·2007·Journal of Abnormal Psychology
DOI 10.1037/0021-843x.116.1.65
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To date, no studies have investigated factors associated with acute stress disorder (ASD) in children and adolescents. Relationships between ASD and a number of demographic, trauma, cognitive, and trauma memory variables were therefore investigated in a sample (N=93) of children and adolescents involved in assaults and motor vehicle accidents. Several cognitive variables and the quality of trauma memories, but not demographic or trauma variables, were correlated with ASD and also mediated the relationship between peritraumatic threat and ASD. Finally, nosological analyses comparing ASD with indexes of posttraumatic stress disorder in the month posttrauma revealed little support for the dissociation mandate that uniquely characterizes ASD. The results are discussed with respect to assessment and treatment for the acute traumatic stress responses of children and young people.

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  • Memories with enhanced perceptual features and sense of 'nowness' also characterize children with posttraumatic conditions.

    “Memories with these same qualities of enhanced perceptual features and sense of 'nowness' also characterize children with posttraumatic conditions (McKinnon, Nixon, & Brewer, 2008; Meiser-Stedman, Dalgleish, Smith, Yule, & Glucksman, 2007).”

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Authors
Meiser-Stedman, R., Dalgleish, T., Smith, P., Yule, W., & Glucksman, E.
Affiliations
  • MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (GB)
  • King's College Hospital (GB)
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Venue
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
2007-02
Volume
116
Issue
1
Pages
65-79
ISSN
  • 0021-843X (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1846
DOI
10.1037/0021-843x.116.1.65
OpenAlex
W2089339592
Cited by
76
References
12
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FWCI
4.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Abnormal Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) (submittedVersion)
  • Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Medical Research Council
  • Psychiatry Research Trust
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
Keywords
acute stress disorder, children, adolescents, traumatic memory, post-traumatic stress disorder, motor vehicle accidents, assault, dissociation, cognitive factors, traumatic stress response
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Child, Cognition Disorders, Demography, Female, Humans, Male, Memory Disorders, Surveys and Questionnaires, Stress Disorders, Traumatic, Acute

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