McGuire, R;
Hiller, RM;
Ehlers, A;
Fearon, P;
Meiser-Stedman, R;
Leuteritz, S;
Halligan, SL;
(2021)
A Longitudinal Investigation of Children's Trauma Memory Characteristics and Their Relationship with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms.
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
10.1007/s10802-021-00773-5.
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Abstract
While trauma memory characteristics are considered a core predictor of adult PTSD, the literature on child PTSD is limited and inconsistent. We investigated whether children’s trauma memory characteristics predict their posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) at 1 month and 6 months post-trauma. We recruited 126 6–13 year olds who experienced a single-incident trauma that led to attendance at an emergency department. We assessed trauma memory disorganisation and sensory-emotional qualities through both narrative recall and self-report questionnaire, and PTSS at 1-month post-trauma and at 6-month follow-up. We found that, after controlling for age, children’s self-reported trauma memory characteristics were positively associated with their concurrent PTSS, and longitudinally predicted symptoms 6-months later. However, observable trauma memory characteristics coded from children’s narratives were not related to PTSS at any time. This suggests that children’s perceptions of their trauma memories are a more reliable predictor of the development and maintenance of PTSS than the nature of their trauma narrative, which has important implications for clinical practice.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | A Longitudinal Investigation of Children's Trauma Memory Characteristics and Their Relationship with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10802-021-00773-5 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-021-00773-5 |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Memory, Narrative, Posttraumatic stress, Trauma |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10121787 |
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