The clinical and age-related features of psychogenic disorders in children and adolescents subjected to extrafamilial sexual abuse were studied. A total of 90 victims aged 5–18 years (29 boys, 61 girls) took part. At different stages of the legal situation, victims developed marked psychogenic states with the following ICD-10 diagnoses: acute stress reaction (ICD-40 F43.0) was present in 84%, PTSD (F42.1) in 14%, brief depressive reaction (F43.20) in 34%, prolonged depressive reaction (F43.21) in 24%, phobic anxiety disorders (F40) in 16% of minors (aged 9–13 years), and mixed disturbance of emotion and conduct (F43.25) in 12% of minors. The age-specific characteristics of mental disorders included a predominance of neurotic disorders and rudimentary psychopathological manifestations. The double (nonspecific and specific) role of sexual abuse in forming psychogenic disorders in children is emphasized.
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Translated from Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psikhiatrii imeni S. S. Korsakova, Vol. 109, No. 12, Iss. I, pp. 34–37, December, 2009.
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Badmaeva, V.D. Consequences of Sexual Abuse in Children and Adolescents. Neurosci Behav Physi 41, 259–262 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-011-9409-6
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