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Journal of Pediatric Psychology Advance Access published online on May 17, 2008
Journal of Pediatric Psychology, doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsn050
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Commentary: Life Threat, Risk, and Resilience in Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress

Branlyn E. Werba, PhD1 and Anne E. Kazak, PhD, ABPP1,2

1The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and 2University of Pennsylvania

All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Dr Branlyn Werba, 3535 Market Street, 14th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USA. E-mail: werba@email.chop.edu

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Since the initial descriptive studies in the 1980s, the medical traumatic stress field has grown substantially, with an estimated 8-fold increase in papers about children and their families from 2000 to 2007 compared to the 1990s (Kazak, Schneider & Kassam-Adams, in press). Pediatric conditions can be traumatic experiences across family members and a traumatic stress framework can help explain short- and long-term responses to illnesses and injuries. Traumatic stress is compelling, in part, because it maps on to a competency based framework for understanding the trajectory of adjustment, from acute stress through potential long-term effects.

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