Julian D. Ford

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight seven primary domains of impairment observed in children exposed to complex trauma and identify phenomenologically based domains based on the extant child clinical and research literatures.

TL;DR: Service providers need to incorporate a trauma-inform into their services to assist children and adolescents who are exposed to traumatic events.

TL;DR: Poly-Victimization is prevalent among adolescents and places youth at high risk for psychiatric impairment and for delinquency, suggesting that adolescent healthcare providers should consider poly-victimization as a risk for behavioral and legal problems even when PTSD, depression, or addiction symptoms are not clinically significant.

TL;DR: Research is summarized that suggests directions for broadening current diagnostic conceptualizations for victimized children, focusing on findings regarding victimization, the prevalence of a variety of psychiatric symptoms related to affect and behavior dysregulation, disturbances of consciousness and cognition, alterations in attribution and schema, and interpersonal impairment.

TL;DR: To understand how the developmental effects of childhood maltreatment contribute to emotional dysregulation and psychiatric sequelae, the research evidence of associations between childhood trauma, emotional Dysregulation, and psychiatric comorbidities in children, adolescents, and adults is examined.