Assessment of adverse childhood experiences in adolescents from a rural agricultural community: Associations with depressive symptoms and psychosocial problems.

The main goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among Latino adolescents from an agricultural community and to examine how it may impact their neuropsychiatric functioning. This research particularly assessed the association between ACEs and depression, as well as ACEs and psychosocial problems. The study sample consisted of 852 adolescents treated at a rural primary care clinic with a comprehensive ACE screening protocol that assesses for ACEs, depressed mood, and psychosocial functioning during every annual Well-Child Visit.

Psychometric Properties of the Haitian Creole Brief Religious Coping Scale (RCOPE) with a Sample of Adult Haitians Impacted by the 2010 Earthquake.

The current study investigated the psychometric properties of the Haitian Creole version of the Brief Religious Coping Scale (Brief RCOPE). A total of 256 adult survivors of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti completed the Brief RCOPE and measures of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, resilience, general coping, and posttraumatic growth. The results showed the Brief RCOPE to have excellent internal consistency reliability α = .

Implications of posttraumatic growth for the treatment of comorbid substance abuse among survivors of traumatic experiences.

Objectives: Research suggests that individuals treated for substance use disorders are not routinely assessed for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology despite high rates of comorbidity. One area of research that has been overlooked in theory, research, and practice on the comorbidity of substance use disorders and PTSD is the study of post-traumatic growth. The purpose of the current study is to explore the relevance of post-traumatic growth for the treatment of comorbid substance use disorders among individuals suffering from traumatic stress or PTSD.