複雜性創傷後壓力症候群：修订间差异

PTSD的診斷最初是為遭受單一創傷事件（例如[[性侵]]）或[[戰爭]]中經歷過創傷的成年人開發的。<ref name = traumacenter>{{cite web | url=http://www.wmich.edu/traumacenter/pdf/Complex%20Trauma%20and%20Developmental%20Trauma%20Disorder1%5D.pdf | title=Complex Trauma And Developmental Trauma Disorder | publisher=National Child Traumatic Stress Network | access-date=14 November 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205105733/http://www.wmich.edu/traumacenter/pdf/Complex%20Trauma%20and%20Developmental%20Trauma%20Disorder1%5D.pdf | archive-date=5 December 2013 | url-status=dead }}</ref> 但是，許多孩子的情況截然不同。兒童可能會遭受長期創傷，例如：[[虐待]]、[[家庭暴力]]、[[機能不全家庭|家庭失能]]（英語：dysfunction），和可能包括和主要照顧者的[[依戀]]中斷。<ref name = Ford>{{cite journal | vauthors = Ford JD, Grasso D, Greene C, Levine J, Spinazzola J, van der Kolk B | title = Clinical significance of a proposed developmental trauma disorder diagnosis: results of an international survey of clinicians | journal = The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | volume = 74 | issue = 8 | pages = 841–9 | date = August 2013 | pmid = 24021504 | doi = 10.4088/JCP.12m08030 }}</ref> 大部分情況是孩子的照顧者造成創傷。<ref name = traumacenter>{{cite web | url=http://www.wmich.edu/traumacenter/pdf/Complex%20Trauma%20and%20Developmental%20Trauma%20Disorder1%5D.pdf | title=Complex Trauma And Developmental Trauma Disorder | publisher=National Child Traumatic Stress Network | access-date=14 November 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205105733/http://www.wmich.edu/traumacenter/pdf/Complex%20Trauma%20and%20Developmental%20Trauma%20Disorder1%5D.pdf | archive-date=5 December 2013 | url-status=dead }}</ref> PTSD診斷未考慮兒童發育階段如何影響其症狀以及創傷如何影響兒童的成長。<ref name = traumacenter/> '''發育創傷障礙症候群'''（英語：developmental trauma disorder，縮寫為DTD）一詞被提議視為兒童期的C-PTSD。<ref name = Ford/> 這種創傷的發展方式使兒童處於患精神和醫學疾病的風險中。<ref name = Ford/> {{link-en|貝索·馮·德·克洛|Bessel van der Kolk}}博士將DTD解釋為遭遇許多[[人際]]創傷，例如：人身傷害、性傷害、[[暴力]]或[[死亡]]。也可以透過主觀事件，如：{{link-en|遺棄|Abandonment (emotional)}}，[[背叛]]，失敗或[[羞恥]]造成。<ref name=":0">{{cite web | url=http://www.traumacenter.org/products/Developmental_Trauma_Disorder.pdf | title=Developmental trauma disorder | publisher=Psychiatric Annals | year=2005 | access-date=14 November 2013 | vauthors = van der Kolk B | pages=401–408}}</ref> 在兒童時期反覆遭受創傷將導致不同於PTSD的症狀。<ref name=":0" /> 庫克等人在七個方面描述了其症狀和行為特徵：<ref name="NCTSNWhitePaper">{{Cite book| editor-last = Cook | editor-first = Alexandra | editor2-last = Blaustein | editor2-first = Margaret | editor3-last = Spinazzola | editor3-first = Joseph | editor4-last = van der Kolk | editor4-first = Bessel| name-list-format = vanc | date = 2003 | title = Complex Trauma in Children and Adolescents: White Paper from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, Complex Trauma Task Force | publisher = National Child Traumatic Stress Network | url = http://nursebuddha.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/complex-trauma-in-children.pdf | access-date = 2013-11-14}}</ref><ref name="Cook2005" />

由PTSD衍生的心理療法對幫助患有C-PTSD的兒童的實用性尚不確定。在診斷和治療領域，使用C-PTSD類別時需要注意。朱利安·福特（Julian Ford）和貝索·馮·德·克洛（Bessel van der Kolk）博士提出，C-PTSD對診斷和治療兒童可能不如特為兒童而設的發育創傷障礙症候群（DTD）那樣有用<ref name= "Ford_2009" />{{rp|60}} 根據庫圖瓦（Courtois）和福特，要開出DTD診斷患者必須

上述內容可以概念化為一個模型，分為三個階段。每個案例都不一樣，但可預期第一階段包括教授適當的生活挑戰應對策略和解決安全問題。下一階段的重點是有能力減少對創傷性刺激的迴避，並運用第一階段學到的應對技巧。照顧者也可以開始挑戰關於創傷的假設，並引入關於創傷的其他敘述。最後階段將包括鞏固以前所學到的知識，並將這些策略應用於未來遇到的壓力事件。<ref>{{Cite journal|first=David|last=Lawson| name-list-style = vanc |date=July 2017|title=Treating Adults With Complex Trauma: An Evidence-Based Case Study|journal=Journal of Counseling and Development|volume=95|issue=3|pages=288–298|doi=10.1002/jcad.12143}}</ref>