The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic

by Edited by Ruth A. Lanius , Eric Vermetten , Clare Pain

• ISBN13: 9780521880268
• ISBN10: 0521880262
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-20
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

There is now ample evidence from the preclinical and clinical fields that early life trauma has both dramatic and long-lasting effects on neurobiological systems and functions that are involved in different forms of psychopathology as well as on health in general. To date, a comprehensive review of the recent research on the effects of early and later life trauma is lacking. This book fills an obvious gap in academic and clinical literature by providing reviews which summarize and synthesize these findings. Topics considered and discussed include the possible biological and neuropsychological effects of trauma at different epochs and their effect on health. This book will be essential reading for psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, mental health professionals, social workers, pediatricians and specialists in child development.

Table of Contents

Early Life Trauma, Impact of Health and Disease

Childhood Trauma: Epidemiology and Historical Themes

The history of early life trauma and abuse from the 1850s to the current time: how the past influences the present

The epidemiology of early life trauma

Historical themes in the study of recovered and false memories of trauma

Early life trauma, later outcome: results from longitudinal studies and clinical observations

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The Effects of Life Trauma: Mental and Physical Health

Attachment dysregulation as hidden trauma in infancy

Towards a developmental trauma in infancy, early stress, maternal buffering, and psychiatric morbidity in young adulthood

Complex adult sequelae of early life exposure to psychological trauma

The relationship of adverse childhood experiences to adult health, well being, social function and health care

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Biological Approaches to Early Life Trauma

The Impact of Early Life Trauma: Psychobiological Sequelae in Children

Translational studies of the effects of early life stress

Lateral asymmetries in infants' regulatory and communicative gestures

Neurobiology of childhood trauma and adversity

Neurobiology of neglect

Early life trauma as a risk factor for disease in adulthood

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The Impact of Childhood Trauma: Psychobiological Sequelae in Adults

Early life stress and psychiatric risk/resilience: the importance of a developmental neurobiological model in understanding gene by environment interactions

Neuroendocrine effects of early life trauma

Long lasting effects of early life trauma on neurobiological circuits

Biological framework for early life related traumatic dissociation

The role of resilience in early life trauma

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Clinical Perspectives, Assessment and Treatment of Trauma Spectrum Disorders

Assessment on the Impact of Early Life Trauma: Clinical Science and Societal Effects

Assessment of early- and mid-childhood trauma in adults

Memory and trauma: examining disruptions in implicit, explicit and autobiographical memory

Scientific progress and methodological issues in the study of recovered and false memories of trauma

The psychosocial consequences of organized violence in children

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Strategies to Reduce Impact

The role of mentalizing in treating attachment trauma

Pragmatic approaches to stage oriented treatment for complex post traumatic stress and dissociative disorders

Cognitive behavioral treatments

Emotions and emotion regulation in the process of trauma recovery: implications for the treatment of post traumatic stress disorder

Psychodynamic psychotherapy: adaptations for the treatment of patients with chronic complex PSTD

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Epilogue

Index

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