"Given this high level of trauma, it was not surprising that 16% of the sample met full criteria for PTSD and that 46% of the sample met partial criteria for PTSD. This rate of comorbid PTSD symptoms and conduct problems is similar to rates found in previous studies" ... "Findings from the present study suggest that traumatic experiences might have negative effects that potentiate the development of delinquency in female adolescents" ... the whole argument that PTSD leads to delinquency in women reminds me of the things we read in assessment/psychopathology about comorbidities between PTSD and BPD, and the dangers of using PTSD to explain away BPD when the reality is more misogynistic & systemic than just individual trauma causing women to be crazy (Dana Becker's stuff). Lots of misogyny in the conversation around delinquent girls...
"By
identifying girls who might benefit from trauma
treatment services (even in lieu of diagnostic symptoms), such experiential trauma measures have the
potential to guide prevention and intervention
efforts to decrease negative outcomes that affect
the health and well-being of delinquent girls, the
safety of the community, and the well-being of delinquent girls’ offspring." - this is an absolutely insane thing to say, shouldn't we be giving trauma treatment services to women who experience trauma because they have experienced trauma NOT to "prevent delinquency"??? Like it is upsetting and leads to a whole life of psychological distress to have traumatic experiences and that's why we should help people with trauma, not so they don't become "delinquents". Sure, preventing further sexual abuse and other compounding trauma associated "delinquency" is a benefit of doing this trauma treatment early, but I think it's pretty dangerous for the argument to be "we need to treat traumatized women so they don't fall into delinquency and exhibit risky sexual behavior, as women do".
Also don't love that a driving force for treating an individual is "the safety of the community" and "the well-being of delinquent girls’ offspring". Shouldn't we be caring about the individual who experienced the trauma first and foremost? This feels very much like medicating a kid with conduct problems so he's easier to deal with in school and the school community function better instead of actually addressing the problems the kid has that are making him distressed. Again, weird to have the drive be the wellbeing of their children instead of the wellbeing of themselves. Very medieval...