"Trauma resulting from past exposure to violence is common among youth in detention, according to a new bulletin released today by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). PTSD, Trauma, and Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in Detained Youth found a majority of youth in detention previously experienced one or more traumatic events....
"Among youth participating in the project, 93 percent reported previous exposure to trauma and 57 percent reported exposure to trauma six or more times. Significantly more males than females reported trauma. Eleven percent of study participants met the diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the past year. Of these youth, more than half reported witnessing violence as the precipitating trauma and 93 percent had at least one additional, or comorbid, psychiatric disorder...."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/04/ojjdp-ptsd-study-idUSnPNDC25792+1e0+PRN20130604
Bulletin full text: PTSD, Trauma, and Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in Detained Youth
http://www.ojjdp.gov/pubs/239603.pdf
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