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• Archive: Prior to 1980, hundreds of thousands of veterans returned from Vietnam with symptoms that did not fit into an existing diagnosis.
• The introduction of the PTSD diagnosis in the DSM III made it possible for their condition to be recognized and treatments to be developed.
• Today we are in a similar situation.
• Every year, there are ten times as many children in the US reported to be victims of domestic violence, neglect and abuse than combat soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan diagnosed with PTSD.
• However, these children live in a diagnostic void because the current DSM-IV conceptualization of PTSD does not reflect the symptoms experienced by the vast majority of these children.