Psychology 2320A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Truancy, Allostatic Load, Cortisol

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2320A/B
• Professor: idk

Document Summary

Considerable evidence supports the significant link between childhood trauma and immediate and long- term mental health consequences, leading some to call childhood trauma the hidden epidemic . Childhood trauma has the potential to undermined health child development and cause many of the forms of abnormal child development described in this text, such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and many others. Stressful events are typically more common and less extreme than traumatic events: stressors may be a single event, such as parental separation or romantic beak ups. Trauma and stressor related disorders is a new category in the dsm-5; it includes acute stress disorder, Adjustment disorder, and ptsd, which were classified as anxiety disorders in previous editions of the. This category also includes two other stressor-related disorders previously listed as disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence : reactive attachment disorder and disinhibited social.