 | The Impact of Multiple Childhood Trauma on Homeless Runaway Adolescents Subjects: Behavioral Sciences; Psychological Science; Mental Health; Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology; Psychological Disorders - Children and Adolescents; Developmental Psychology; Originally published in 1999, the author addresses the American tragedy of some two million youth running away from home each year. This title proposes a model for examining the relationship between multiple types of childhood trauma - physical, sexual and psychological abuse, exposure to domestic violence - and psychological functioning in a sample of 140 homeless adolescents. |
