Skills Training for Family Medicine Residents to Attenuate the Impact of Childhood Trauma: A Pilot Study.

Background And Objectives: Toxic stress and trauma are prevalent in the pediatric population. The sequela can be significant, leading to disruptive behaviors in early childhood to chronic medical conditions in adulthood. Two factors that can mitigate negative outcomes of developmental traumatic stress include relational health care and healthy parental relationships.

Addressing externalized behavioral concerns in primary care: Listening to the voices of parents.

This article presents the perceptions parents have of the causative and curative factors for their child's externalized behaviors and what treatment they prefer to receive from their primary care integrated behavioral health team. This is a qualitative study, using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 12 parents representing 14 patients with a disruptive behavior disorder (DBD) who sought care from their primary care physician for treatment of the DBD.