This paper embarks on a descriptive exploration of the relations between ADHD and Complex Trauma among children in an urban psychiatric hospital. To date, these two diagnostic categories have not been examined in concert. This study was based upon chart reviews of 79 children and adolescents who were receiving treatment at an urban children's psychiatric hospital. The Hospitalized Child and Adolescent Trauma and Psychopathology Questionnaire was completed for each participant and information regarding demographics, diagnosis, and complex trauma.

Mit der Erstbeschreibung der railway-spine beginnt im Jahr 1866 die wechselvolle Geschichte der Psychotraumatologie zwischen wissenschaftlicher Erforschung und gesellschaftlicher Tabuisierung. Dabei waren an der Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert die Konzeptentwicklungen zur Traumatischen Neurose durch Hermann Oppenheim sowie zur traumainduzierten Dissoziation durch Pierre Janet wichtige Meilensteine der historischen Entwicklung.

Background: This project aimed to provide an organized, sequential, and evidence-supported approach to the pharmacotherapy of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), following the format of previous efforts of the Psychopharmacology Algorithm Project at the Harvard South Shore Program.

Following the death of a loved one, a small group of grievers develop an abnormal grieving style, termed complicated or prolonged grief. In the effort to establish complicated grief as a disorder in DSM and ICD, several attempts have been made over the past two decades to establish symptom criteria for this form of grieving. Complicated grief is different from depression and PTSD yet often comorbid with other psychological disorders. Meta-analyses of grief interventions show small to medium effect sizes, with only few studies yielding large effect sizes.