İBRAHİM MAHMUT CEYHAN, ÖZDEN YALÇINKAYA ALKAR
Journal of Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy and Research - 2023;12(3):295-306
Complex trauma involves long-term traumatic life experiences that occur early life years and generally occur in the interpersonal field, like sexual abuse, physical violence, bullying, permanent and negative changes in nurture systems, and exposing social violence. Complex traumas become different from single term traumas at many angles by the reasons of both occur in important life terms like childhood and adolescence and also are repetitive in nature and long term. However, this situation is not taken into consideration in diagnosis and treatment processes. This article, it is aimed to critically examine the concept of complex trauma and related concepts. For this reason, this article initially addresses what complex traumas are. Afterward, the DSM-based correspondences of the symptoms seen are discussed. Daha sonra da son zamanlarda konuyla ilgili yürütülen ilgili araştirma bulgularina yer verilmiştir. In this context discussed subjects are respectively: how symptoms seen after complex trauma differentiates as characteristic and quantity from symptoms seen after single trauma, the increase in the rate of corbidity due to the inability to distinguish the concept of complex trauma in diagnostic systems, developmental trauma disorder that developed to capture the sequelae of complex trauma, and related research findings. Finally, possible consequences of deficiency of complex trauma, possible benefits of a diagnosis developed in this direction, and solution suggestions are discussed.
