Watch Steve Sawyers videos on Developmental Trauma Training
Developmental Trauma Disorder: A Legacy of Attachment Trauma in Victimized Children
Developmental trauma disorder (DTD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been found to have both shared and unique traumatic antecedents. The present study was an independent replication, with the DTD Structured Interview and the Traumatic Events Screening Instrument administered to 271 children in mental health treatment in six U.S. sites.

When Nowhere Is Safe: Interpersonal Trauma and Attachment Adversity as Antecedents of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Developmental Trauma Disorder
Developmental trauma disorder (DTD) has been proposed as clinical framework for the sequelae of complex trauma exposure in children. In this study, we investigated whether DTD is associated with different traumatic antecedents than posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Unseen wounds: The contribution of psychological maltreatment to child and adolescent mental health and risk outcomes.
For this study, we evaluated the independent and additive predictive effects of psychological maltreatment on an array of behavioural problems, symptoms, and disorders in a large national sample of clinic-referred children and adolescents drawn from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Core Data Set.
