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Risk of PTSD higher with family problems.(Adolescent Health)(Post-traumatic stress disorder)(Survey)
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Internal Medicine News
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May 15, 2007
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SAN DIEGO -- A high proportion of America's youth experience or witness a violent event, and a family history of substance abuse or mental health problems increase the risk that these youth will develop posttraumatic stress disorder or depression.
Those are the findings of a 7- to 8-year follow-up of subjects in the National Survey of Adolescents, Rochelle F. Hanson, Ph.D., said at a conference sponsored by the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Children's Hospital and Health Center, San Diego.
The follow-up showed that experiencing/witnessing violence and a family history of substance abuse, mental health problems, or depression could put an adolescent at ...