Children’s Enduring PTSD Symptoms are Related to Their Family’s Adaptability and Cohesion

This study compared, 18–24 months after an industrial disaster, in two groups of children (those with clinically relevant PTSD symptoms versus those with low PTSD symptoms), the child’s perception of family cohesion and adaptability, the child’s experience of the explosion, and parental characterist...

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Published in:Community mental health journal 2009-08, Vol.45 (4), p.290-299
Main Authors: Birmes, Philippe, Raynaud, Jean-Philippe, Daubisse, Laetitia, Brunet, Alain, Arbus, Christophe, Klein, Rémy, Cailhol, Lionel, Allenou, Charlotte, Hazane, Franck, Grandjean, Hélène, Schmitt, Laurent
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptability
Adaptation, Psychological
Adjustment
Adolescent
Anxiety disorders
Biological and medical sciences
Cancer
Child
Child & adolescent psychiatry
Child clinical studies
Child psychology
Children
Children & youth
Cohesion
Community and Environmental Psychology
Disasters
Explosions
Families & family life
Family
Family cohesion
Family Relations
Female
Females
France - epidemiology
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mental depression
Middle schools
Original Paper
Parents
Perceptions
Post traumatic stress disorder
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Secondary schools
Social Cohesion
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - epidemiology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - physiopathology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Symptoms
Teenagers
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Summary:This study compared, 18–24 months after an industrial disaster, in two groups of children (those with clinically relevant PTSD symptoms versus those with low PTSD symptoms), the child’s perception of family cohesion and adaptability, the child’s experience of the explosion, and parental characteristics. Enmeshed family cohesion or rigid family adaptability were more frequently found in children with low PTSD symptoms. PTSD symptoms in the mother, living in a family of 3 or more children, and being female were significantly associated with PTSD symptoms in the children. The assessment of traumatized children should include assessment of family’s adaptability and cohesion.
ISSN:0010-3853
1573-2789
DOI:10.1007/s10597-008-9166-3