Childhood Trauma and Psychiatric Symptoms

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 447-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan W. Ellason ◽  
Colin A. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Dissociative Disorders ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Check List ◽  
Interview Schedule ◽  
Dissociative Experiences Scale ◽  
Dissociative Experiences ◽  
Symptom Check List

144 psychiatric inpatients who reported childhood physical or sexual trauma were administered the Symptom Check List-90-Revised, the Dissociative Experiences Scale, and the Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule. There was a significant association of reported childhood abuse with psychotic and other symptoms. The findings support the hypothesis that experience of trauma may precede psychiatric symptoms, perhaps including positive symptoms of schizophrenia.

Reported childhood trauma, attempted suicide and self-mutilative behavior among women in the general population

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gamze Akyuz ◽  
Vedat Sar ◽  
Nesim Kugu ◽  
Orhan Doğan
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
General Population ◽  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Dissociative Experiences Scale ◽  
Dissociative Experiences ◽  
Central Turkey

AbstractThis study attempted to determine the prevalence of childhood trauma among women in the general population as assessed in a representative sample from a city in central Turkey. The Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) was administered to 628 women in 500 homes. They were also asked for childhood abuse and/or neglect. DES was administered to 251 probands. Mean age of the probands was 34.8 ± 11.5 years (range 18–65). Sixteen women (2.5%) reported sexual abuse, 56 women (8.9%) physical abuse, and 56 women (8.9%) emotional abuse in childhood. The most frequently reported childhood trauma was neglect (n = 213, 33.9%). The prevalence of suicide attempts was 4.5% (n = 28). Fourteen probands (2.2%) reported self-mutilative behavior.

Association between Childhood Trauma and Dissociation Among Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 478-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Watson ◽  
Roy Chilton ◽  
Helen Fairchild ◽  
Peter Whewell
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Childhood Trauma Questionnaire ◽  
Dissociative Experiences Scale ◽  
Dissociative Experiences ◽  
Scale Scores

Objective: To examine the relationship between childhood trauma and dissociative experience in adulthood in patients with borderline personality disorder. Method: Dissociative experiences scale scores and subscale scores for the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire were correlated in 139 patients. Patients were dichotomized into high or low dissociators using the Median Dissociative Experiences Scale score as the cut-off. Results: Childhood Trauma Questionnaire Subscale scores for emotional and physical abuse and emotional neglect but not sexual abuse correlated significantly with Dissociative Experiences Scale scores. High dissociators reported significantly greater levels of emotional abuse, physical abuse, emotional neglect and physical neglect but not sexual abuse than low dissociators. Conclusion: Patients with borderline personality disorder therefore demonstrated levels of dissociation that increased with levels of childhood trauma, supporting the hypothesis that traumatic childhood experiences engender dissociative symptoms later in life. Emotional abuse and neglect may be at least as important as physical and sexual abuse in the development of dissociative symptoms.

Prevalence of Dissociative Symptoms and Disorders in an Adult Psychiatric Inpatient Population in Canada

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Horen Sheila ◽  
P. Leichner Pierre ◽  
J. Stuart Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Inpatient ◽  
Psychiatric Inpatients ◽  
Dissociative Disorders ◽  
Dissociative Experiences Scale ◽  
Dissociative Experiences ◽  
Not Otherwise Specified ◽  
Dissociative Symptoms ◽  
Dissociative Amnesia ◽  
Dsm Iv ◽  
Inpatient Population

Objective This study attempted to estimate the prevalence of dissociative symptoms and disorders in a Canadian adult psychiatric inpatient population and also attempted to determine the extent to which dissociative disorders were recognized by the attending clinical staff. Method All appropriate and consenting adult psychiatric inpatients at the Kingston Psychiatric Hospital in Kingston, Ontario, were given the Dissociative Experiences Scale. Patients scoring 25 or greater were interviewed with the Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders. Admission or discharge diagnoses data were used to determine whether or not dissociative disorders were being recognized. Results A total of 48 patients completed the Dissociative Experiences Scale and 14 (29%) scored 25 or greater. The prevalence of dissociative disorders in this hospital population was estimated to be 17%. Dissociative identity disorder was found in six percent, dissociative amnesia in eight percent and dissociative disorder not otherwise specified in two percent of the population. These disorders tended to be under-recognized. Conclusion Research on more extensive populations is required to establish the true prevalence of dissociative symptoms and disorders in psychiatric inpatients.

scholarly journals Childhood abuse and neglect in relation to the presence and persistence of psychotic and depressive symptomatology

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (7) ◽  
pp. 1363-1377 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. S. van Dam ◽  
M. van Nierop ◽  
W. Viechtbauer ◽  
E. Velthorst ◽  
R. van Winkel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Dose Response Relationship ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Positive And Negative Symptoms

BackgroundThe association between childhood trauma and psychotic and depressive symptomatology is well established. However, less is known about the specificity and course of these symptoms in relation to childhood trauma.MethodIn a large sample (n = 2765) of patients with psychosis (n = 1119), their siblings (n = 1057) and controls (n = 589), multivariate (mixed-effects) regression analyses with multiple outcomes were performed to examine the association between childhood trauma and psychotic and depressive symptomatology over a 3-year period.ResultsA dose–response relationship was found between childhood trauma and psychosis. Abuse was more strongly associated with positive symptoms than with negative symptoms whereas the strength of the associations between neglect and positive and negative symptoms was comparable. In patients, similar associations between childhood trauma and psychotic or depressive symptoms were found, and in siblings and controls, stronger associations were found between trauma and depressive symptomatology. Childhood trauma was not related to a differential course of symptoms over a 3-year time period.ConclusionsIn congruence with earlier work, our findings suggest that childhood trauma, and abuse in particular, is associated with (subthreshold) psychosis. However, childhood trauma does not seem to be associated with a differential course of symptoms, nor does it uniquely heighten the chance of developing (subthreshold) psychotic symptomatology. Our results indicate that trauma may instead contribute to a shared vulnerability for psychotic and depressive symptoms.

scholarly journals Psychosomatic symptoms in patients suffering from morphea

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
L. А. Pаroshуna
Keyword(s):  
Severity Index ◽  
Symptom Distress ◽  
Positive Symptom ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Check List ◽  
Global Severity Index ◽  
Psychosomatic Symptoms ◽  
Symptom Check List ◽  
Compulsive Disorders

Objective. To study the features of psychosomatic pathology in patients with morphea.Materials and methods. We used the Symptom Check List-90 Revised (SCL-90-R) to assess patterns of phychological signs in 95 patients suffering from morphea. The control group included 30 respondents without the skin pathology.Results. The patients with morphea revealed higher values in the Global Severity Index (GSI), Positive Symptom Distress Index (PSDI), Positive Symptoms Total (PST). The group of the patients with morphea showed higher distress levels according to the somatization, obsessive and compulsive disorders, depression, anxiety scales.Conclusion. Patients with morphea have a wider range of psychosomatic symptoms. The prevalent characteristics of psychosomatic changes are somatization, obsessive and compulsive disorders, depression, anxiety.  

Beeinträchtigtes Erkennen emotionaler Gesichtsausdrücke durch psychiatrische Patientinnen bei Alexithymie

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Dittrich ◽  
Gregor Domes ◽  
Susi Loebel ◽  
Christoph Berger ◽  
Carsten Spitzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Check List ◽  
Psychosomatische Erkrankungen ◽  
Psychiatrische Patienten ◽  
Symptom Check List ◽  
Tas 20

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Hypothese eines mit Alexithymie assoziierten Defizits beim Erkennen emotionaler Gesichtsaudrücke an einer klinischen Population. Darüber hinaus werden Hypothesen zur Bedeutung spezifischer Emotionsqualitäten sowie zu Gender-Unterschieden getestet. 68 ambulante und stationäre psychiatrische Patienten (44 Frauen und 24 Männer) wurden mit der Toronto-Alexithymie-Skala (TAS-20), der Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Scale (MADRS), der Symptom-Check-List (SCL-90-R) und der Emotional Expression Multimorph Task (EEMT) untersucht. Als Stimuli des Gesichtererkennungsparadigmas dienten Gesichtsausdrücke von Basisemotionen nach Ekman und Friesen, die zu Sequenzen mit sich graduell steigernder Ausdrucksstärke angeordnet waren. Mittels multipler Regressionsanalyse untersuchten wir die Assoziation von TAS-20 Punktzahl und facial emotion recognition (FER). Während sich für die Gesamtstichprobe und den männlichen Stichprobenteil kein signifikanter Zusammenhang zwischen TAS-20-Punktzahl und FER zeigte, sahen wir im weiblichen Stichprobenteil durch die TAS-20 Punktzahl eine signifikante Prädiktion der Gesamtfehlerzahl (β = .38, t = 2.055, p < 0.05) und den Fehlern im Erkennen der Emotionen Wut und Ekel (Wut: β = .40, t = 2.240, p < 0.05, Ekel: β = .41, t = 2.214, p < 0.05). Für wütende Gesichter betrug die Varianzaufklärung durch die TAS-20-Punktzahl 13.3 %, für angeekelte Gesichter 19.7 %. Kein Zusammenhang bestand zwischen der Zeit, nach der die Probanden die emotionalen Sequenzen stoppten, um ihre Bewertung abzugeben (Antwortlatenz) und Alexithymie. Die Ergebnisse der Arbeit unterstützen das Vorliegen eines mit Alexithymie assoziierten Defizits im Erkennen emotionaler Gesichtsausdrücke bei weiblchen Probanden in einer heterogenen, klinischen Stichprobe. Dieses Defizit könnte die Schwierigkeiten Hochalexithymer im Bereich sozialer Interaktionen zumindest teilweise begründen und so eine Prädisposition für psychische sowie psychosomatische Erkrankungen erklären.

Children's Dissociative Experiences Scale and Posttraumatic Symptom Inventory: A Replication Study

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley C. Stolbach ◽  
Renee Z. Dominguez ◽  
Vikki Rompala ◽  
Courtney Fleisher ◽  
Tanja Gazibara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Replication Study ◽  
Dissociative Experiences Scale ◽  
Symptom Inventory ◽  
Dissociative Experiences

Revisions to the Dissociative Experiences Scale: The DES-R and the DES-B

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constance J. Dalenberg ◽  
Meline A. Arzoumanian ◽  
Emily J. Hennrich ◽  
Jan E. Estrellado ◽  
Kristen Dahlin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dissociative Experiences Scale ◽  
Dissociative Experiences

Update on the Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Eliason ◽  
Colin A. Ross ◽  
Dayna Fuchs ◽  
Geri Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Dissociative Disorders ◽  
Interview Schedule
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