scholarly journals Using Psychedelics With Therapeutic Intent Is Associated With Lower Shame and Complex Trauma Symptoms in Adults With Histories of Child Maltreatment

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 247054702110298
Author(s):  
C. J. Healy ◽  
Kellie Ann Lee ◽  
Wendy D’Andrea
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Complex Trauma ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms ◽  
Trauma Symptoms ◽  
Internalized Shame ◽  
Stress Symptoms ◽  
History Of

Background Child maltreatment negatively affects the formation of internal schemata of self and other during development, leading to negative adaptations in self-concept and social cognition. Clinical reports suggest the efficacy of psychedelics in treating the psychopathological sequelae of child maltreatment. Altering maladaptive schemata of self and other implicated in negative self-concept and impaired social cognition may be a central mechanism for reducing posttraumatic stress symptoms. Aims This study aims to assess whether psychedelic use moderates the relationships between child maltreatment and self-concept, social cognition, and posttraumatic stress symptoms. Method An online survey was completed by 166 participants and included measures of maltreatment exposure and severity, history of intentional therapeutic psychedelic use, posttraumatic stress symptoms, internalized shame, and facial emotion recognition. Results Child maltreatment significantly correlated with posttraumatic stress symptoms ( r = .26 and r = .20, p < .01) and internalized shame ( r = .18, p < .05). Of all maltreatment subtypes, emotional abuse and neglect most strongly correlated with complex trauma symptoms ( r = .32, p < .001) and internalized shame ( r = .31, p < .001). Participants with a history of intentional therapeutic psychedelic use reported significantly lower complex trauma symptoms ( d = 0.33, p < .05) and internalized shame ( d = 0.35, p < .05) despite similar histories of maltreatment. Differences in complex trauma symptoms ( d = 0.66, p < .01) and internalized shame ( d = 0.80, p < .001) were largest for participants with a history of more than 5 occasions of intentional therapeutic psychedelic use. A history of more than 5 occasions of intentional therapeutic psychedelic use significantly moderated the relationship between emotional abuse and neglect and complex trauma symptoms (p < .01). No associations were found between maltreatment or psychedelic use and facial emotion recognition. Conclusion These findings demonstrate that using psychedelic drugs with therapeutic intent is associated with lower levels of complex trauma symptoms and internalized shame in individuals with histories of child maltreatment. Psychedelic use may have therapeutic benefit in treating the posttraumatic sequelae of child maltreatment.

scholarly journals Longitudinal association between infant disorganized attachment and childhood posttraumatic stress symptoms

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 493-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Z. MacDonald ◽  
Marjorie Beeghly ◽  
Wanda Grant-Knight ◽  
Marilyn Augustyn ◽  
Ryan W. Woods ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Trauma Exposure ◽  
Diagnostic Interview ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms ◽  
Disorganized Attachment ◽  
Clinical Psychologist ◽  
Ptsd Symptoms ◽  
Stress Symptoms ◽  
History Of

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to evaluate whether children with a history of disorganized attachment in infancy were more likely than children without a history of disorganized attachment to exhibit symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at school age following trauma exposure. The sample consisted of 78 8.5-year-old children from a larger, ongoing prospective study evaluating the effects of intrauterine cocaine exposure (IUCE) on children's growth and development from birth to adolescence. At the 12-month visit, children's attachment status was scored from videotapes of infant–caregiver dyads in Ainsworth's strange situation. At the 8.5-year visit, children were administered the Violence Exposure Scale—Revised, a child-report trauma exposure inventory, and the Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents by an experienced clinical psychologist masked to children's attachment status and IUCE status. Sixteen of the 78 children (21%) were classified as insecure–disorganized/insecure–other at 12 months. Poisson regressions covarying IUCE, gender, and continuity of maternal care indicated that disorganized attachment status at 12 months, compared with nondisorganized attachment status, significantly predicted both higher avoidance cluster PTSD symptoms and higher reexperiencing cluster PTSD symptoms. These findings suggest that the quality of early dyadic relationships may be linked to differences in children's later development of posttraumatic stress symptoms following a traumatic event.

scholarly journals Characteristics of Child Maltreatment and Their Relation to Dissociation, Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, and Depression in Adult Psychiatric Patients

2013 ◽  
Vol 201 (6) ◽  
pp. 471-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Mueller-Pfeiffer ◽  
Hanspeter Moergeli ◽  
Sonja Schumacher ◽  
Chantal Martin-Soelch ◽  
Gustav Wirtz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms ◽  
Stress Symptoms

scholarly journals Predicting criminality from child maltreatment typologies and posttraumatic stress symptoms

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 19825 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ask Elklit ◽  
Karen-Inge Karstoft ◽  
Cherie Armour ◽  
Dagmar Feddern ◽  
Mogens Christoffersen
Keyword(s):  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms ◽  
Stress Symptoms

scholarly journals Longitudinal association between infant disorganized attachment and childhood posttraumatic stress symptoms

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 1351-1351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Z. Macdonald ◽  
Marjorie Beeghly ◽  
Wanda Grant-Knight ◽  
Marilyn Augustyn ◽  
Ryan W. Woods ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Trauma Exposure ◽  
Diagnostic Interview ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms ◽  
Disorganized Attachment ◽  
Clinical Psychologist ◽  
Ptsd Symptoms ◽  
Stress Symptoms ◽  
History Of

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to evaluate whether children with a history of disorganized attachment in infancy were more likely than children without a history of disorganized attachment to exhibit symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at school age following trauma exposure. The sample consisted of 78 8.5-year-old children from a larger, ongoing prospective study evaluating the effects of intrauterine cocaine exposure (IUCE) on children's growth and development from birth to adolescence. At the 12-month visit, children's attachment status was scored from videotapes of infant–caregiver dyads in Ainsworth's strange situation. At the 8.5-year visit, children were administered the Violence Exposure Scale—Revised, a child-report trauma exposure inventory, and the Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents by an experienced clinical psychologist masked to children's attachment status and IUCE status. Sixteen of the 78 children (21%) were classified as insecure–disorganized/insecure–other at 12 months. Poisson regressions covarying IUCE, gender, and continuity of maternal care indicated that disorganized attachment status at 12 months, compared with nondisorganized attachment status, significantly predicted both higher avoidance cluster PTSD symptoms and higher reexperiencing cluster PTSD symptoms. These findings suggest that the quality of early dyadic relationships may be linked to differences in children's later development of posttraumatic stress symptoms following a traumatic event.

scholarly journals A cross-sectional study of mother-child agreement on PTSD symptoms in a south Indian post-tsunami sample

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Exenberger ◽  
David Riedl ◽  
Kumuthavalli Rangaramanujam ◽  
Vijai Amirtharaj ◽  
Florian Juen
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms ◽  
Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽  
Ptsd Symptoms ◽  
Stress Reactions ◽  
Trauma Symptoms ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Living Situation ◽  
Stress Symptoms ◽  
South Indian

Abstract Background Few studies examine caregiver-child agreement on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in non-Western cultures. The present study investigated mother-child agreement for PTSD symptoms in a South Indian sample, which was affected by the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004. Methods Data was collected four years post-disaster. In total, 80 mothers rated PTSD symptoms for their 164 children and gave information about their own trauma symptoms. In addition, the children aged 8 to 17 reported about their own PTSD symptoms. Results Results showed that mother-child agreement on posttraumatic stress symptoms was poor, and a child’s age, gender and living situation (fishing village vs. family-based out-of-home care) did not positively influence this concordance. Moreover, mothers’ own posttraumatic symptoms were strongly related to maternal reports of the child’s PTSD symptoms. Multivariate analyses showed that mothers’ PTSD symptoms were the only significant predictor for discrepancies in the rating of the child’s PTSD symptoms. That means, if mothers reported clinically relevant PTSD symptoms, the likelihood for disagreement on the child’s PTSD ratings more than doubled. Neither age, nor gender nor the living situation had an influence on children’s self-rated posttraumatic stress reactions. Conclusions In general, long-term monitoring of posttraumatic stress symptoms of mothers and children should be planned by relief actions as recovery processes are decelerated through lacking resources in developing countries such as India. Specifically, the assessment of mothers’ trauma symptoms is inevitable because the mothers’ own responses to disaster highly influence their assessment of their children’s symptoms. Mother-child agreement is discussed against the background of socio-cultural aspects.

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