Social maladjustment indicators in PTSD patients' families of origin

Abstract

We compared the frequencies with which PTSD patients, psychiatric controls, and hospital employee controls reported that their fathers, mothers, and oldest siblings of each sex had been incarcerated or had received psychiatric/psychological treatment. We also compared estimates of the number of psychiatric hospitalizations, incarcerations, courses of outpatient treatment, treatment sessions, and days of institutionalization undergone by the relatives. Only a chance number of significant differences appeared, which suggests that general psychosocial maladjustment in one's family of origin does not appear to increase trauma survivors' risk for PTSD.

Revision of Australian Glyptotermes Froggatt (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae)

“…This could result in extreme size variation in character expression. While nothing is known of developmental pathways within Glyptotermes, it would be reasonable to assume, based on what is known from other taxa (Watson and Sewell 1981), that the extreme variability within the soldier caste of the genus could be similarly accounted for.…”