Specific treatment modalities may be helpful for a
particular child, depending on his or her age, the
severity of the presenting problems, and the goals, resources, and circumstances
of the family.
In an important longitudinal study, Ogawa et al. (1997) found that among a sample
of children at
particular risk for traumatization, dissociative symptoms in early childhood were associated with the
severity of trauma and so - called disorganized attachment; these factors predicted dissociative symptoms up to two decades later.
Of particular note, parental attitudes and adjustment, quality of the parent — child attachment, and the presence of parenting and coping skills constitute proximal variables that were better predictors of child outcomes than the frequency or severity of the stressor event (Palmer 2008
Of particular note, parental attitudes and adjustment, quality
of the parent — child attachment, and the presence of parenting and coping skills constitute proximal variables that were better predictors of child outcomes than the frequency or severity of the stressor event (Palmer 2008
of the parent —
child attachment, and the presence
of parenting and coping skills constitute proximal variables that were better predictors of child outcomes than the frequency or severity of the stressor event (Palmer 2008
of parenting and coping skills constitute proximal variables that were better predictors
of child outcomes than the frequency or severity of the stressor event (Palmer 2008
of child outcomes than the frequency or
severity of the stressor event (Palmer 2008
of the stressor event (Palmer 2008).