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Child Psychiatry & Human Development
Gepubliceerd in: Child Psychiatry & Human Development 6/2013

01-12-2013 | Original Article

An Investigation of Complex Attachment- and Trauma-Related Symptomatology Among Children in Foster and Kinship Care

Auteur: Michael Tarren-Sweeney

Gepubliceerd in: Child Psychiatry & Human Development | Uitgave 6/2013

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Abstract

The paper reports an investigation into the nature, patterns and complexity of mental health symptomatology reported for a large (N = 347) population sample of children in foster and kinship care. Cluster analyses were performed on caregiver-reported Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Assessment Checklist for Children (ACC) scores. The derived profile types are characterized more by symptom complexity than specificity, and are delineated more by elevation than shape. The analyses indicate that social and interpersonal relationship difficulties are hallmark features of clinical presentations of children in care; that anxiety is more often observed as a component of felt insecurity than as generalized or trauma-specific anxiety; and that attention-deficit hyperactivity is rarely manifested in isolation from other difficulties. Whereas 35 % of children had clinical difficulties that could plausibly be construed as discrete mental disorders or comorbidity, another 20 % displayed complex attachment- and trauma-related symptomatology that is not adequately conceptualized within DSM or ICD classifications.
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The NSW government closed all residential care facilities several years prior to the start of the CICS. The present sample thus included a sizeable number of children who, in previous times and in other jurisdictions, would not be placed with families.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
An Investigation of Complex Attachment- and Trauma-Related Symptomatology Among Children in Foster and Kinship Care
Auteur
Michael Tarren-Sweeney
Publicatiedatum
01-12-2013
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Child Psychiatry & Human Development / Uitgave 6/2013
Print ISSN: 0009-398X
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3327
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-013-0366-x

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