Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
J Trauma Dissociation. 2020 Mar-Apr;21(2):151-157. doi: 10.1080/15299732.2020.1692404. Epub 2020 Feb 5.
At least 10% of older adults (age 60 and older) experience some form of elder abuse in a given year, with an additional 5% experiencing some form of financial fraud. However, conceptualizations of traumatic stress remain less well developed for elder abuse relative to other forms of trauma, such as child maltreatment and intimate partner violence. Incorporating a trauma framework into elder abuse research promises to deepen and expand our understanding of elder abuse, with the goal of preventing abuse and improving responses to older victims. This special section seeks to spur further research on the nexus between trauma and elder abuse. To frame the special section, this introduction describes current scholarship on this topic and multiple ways to enhance understanding of the nexus between elder abuse and traumatic stress in order to advance research, theory, and practice. The introduction offers an overview of three papers that apply trauma conceptualizations and related theories to distinct areas of inquiry: financial exploitation, criminology's General Strain Theory, and historical trauma experienced by American Indian and Alaska Native populations.
至少有 10%的老年人（60 岁及以上）在特定年份会遭受某种形式的虐待，另有 5%的老年人会遭受某种形式的金融欺诈。然而，相对于其他形式的创伤，如儿童虐待和亲密伴侣暴力，针对虐待老年人的创伤性应激的概念化仍不够完善。将创伤框架纳入虐待老年人的研究有望加深和扩大我们对虐待老年人的理解，从而预防虐待行为并改善对老年受害者的反应。本特刊旨在推动创伤与虐待老年人之间关系的进一步研究。为了给特刊提供框架，本引言描述了关于这一主题的当前学术研究，以及多种增强对虐待老年人与创伤性应激之间关系的理解的方法，以推进研究、理论和实践。引言概述了三篇论文，它们将创伤概念化和相关理论应用于以下三个不同的研究领域：金融剥削、犯罪学的一般应激理论以及美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民经历的历史创伤。
