Trauma in Children and Youth
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Children's Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 3357
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sibling relationships; violence and injury prevention; trauma and resilience in children and youth
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Childhood trauma is a prevalent and serious mental health concern. Exposure to potentially traumatic events or adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) at a single point in time, such as injury, disaster, or invasive medical or dental treatment, as well as chronic exposure to maltreatment, abuse or armed conflict affects millions of children around the world each year (World Health Organization, 2014). Trauma-exposed children are at greater risk of experiencing a wide variety of mental and physical health difficulties which may negatively impact them in both the short and long term. Some may demonstrate symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, while others may experience feelings of depression or anxiety, sleep disturbance, somatic complaints, aggressive behavior, and changes in academic performance or the quality of personal relationships. Not all trauma-exposed children develop mental or physical health problems; most recover relatively quickly or show no symptoms at all, while a significant minority follow differing trajectories of recovery that can include worsening, plateauing or improving over time. The personal and financial cost of childhood trauma is staggering. It was recently estimated that preventable trauma in childhood costs North America and the European Region an estimated 1.3 trillion dollars per year.
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the current state of knowledge concerning trauma-exposed children, including why some children fare better than others and the factors that influence differing trajectories of recovery or outcomes. New research papers and case reports are welcome to this issue. Papers dealing with new approaches to the assessment of trauma-exposed children are also welcome. Other manuscript types accepted include methodological papers, brief reports, and systematic or scoping reviews.
We will accept manuscripts from different disciplines including epidemiology, psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine, nursing, dentistry, human development and family studies, and related disciplines. Here are some examples of topics that could be addressed in this Special Issue:
- Disparities in childhood trauma outcomes;
- Age, gender, or sex differences in childhood trauma outcomes;
- Academic or occupational outcomes of trauma-exposed children and youth;
- Quality of personal relationships of trauma-exposed children and youth;
- Quality of life or health outcomes of trauma-exposed children and youth;
- Differences in outcomes of acute versus chronic trauma exposure in children and youth;
- Mediators or moderators that influence outcomes following childhood trauma exposure.
Dr. Caroline C. Piotrowski
Dr. Margherita Cameranesi
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Trauma
- Children
- Youth
- Traumatic Stress
- Trajectories
