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When Nowhere Is Safe: Interpersonal Trauma and Attachment Adversity as Antecedents PosttraumaticStress Disorder and Developmental Trauma Disorder What did you find most interesting about this article/chapter? Something I thought was super interesting was that traumatic loss was found to be unrelated to both PTSD and DTD. When I was younger, I experienced a lot of traumatic loss, one of the people being my dad, and I think it definitely contributed to the PTSD I experience today. I would think there would be more of an association between traumatic loss and PTSD or DTD. I also lost one of my closest friends when I was in high school, and I know a lot of other people I went to school with lost friends as well, and I would consider that to be an extremely traumatic event. Rates of suicide and drug overdoes are so high, I remember getting emails often about people I went to school with passing away. I feel like losing those people that are close to you, especially being so young, has to have some sort of association with trauma disorders. What questions came up for you as you read this? Describe what you wanted to know more about. As I was reading, I was wondering why there was such a high percentage of interviews that were done with parents only. I experienced a decent amount of trauma when I was little and my parents would have never known how to speak on those feelings. As I was reading the section about traumatic events, I wondered if a child scores high on the TESI assessment, are they automatically diagnosed with PTSD. Could they score high, and not have PTSD? And what other criteria are assessed? How do you think you can use this information in your future studies or future work? I think something that would be useful in my future work is knowing that teens that have experienced sexual trauma in middle childhood tend to not report any other types of trauma exposure that may be happening in that developmental period. If I am working with teens in this developmental period and they disclose sexual trauma to me, I would encourage them to open up more about other things going on in their life. I also think it’s just useful in general to know that attachment adversity and interpersonal trauma are associated with PTSD and DTD because I will probably be working with clients that have experienced trauma, then I can help them work through PTSD symptoms. What information from this article do you think would be most helpful for families? Please explain why. I think it would be important for families to know that the combination of interpersonal trauma and insecure attachment can interfere with children’s emotional regulation, autonomy, and age appropriate social skills. It might also be beneficial to let families
know about the association between PTSD and DTD and having a history of interpersonal trauma and attachment adversity. I think I would want to stress the importance of a healthy attachment to families because attachment adversity is associated with severe biopsychosocial impairment, not only in childhood but across the lifespan.
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