The author has been working on a family treatment for parents and children with child abuse. Most of these parents and children have a combination of developmental trauma disorder for children and complex post-traumatic stress disroder (PTSD) for…
The effect of early interpersonal trauma on adult clients has been extensively studied and reported. Less attention has been given to the effects of complex trauma on children. Because childhood is the time of most rapid brain development as well as…
This paper presents the assessment and four year psychotherapy of a Hispanic man with Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorder NOS. The patient’s history of childhood sexual abuse caused significant disruptions in normative developmental processes…
