Child Abuse Assessment and Treatment

For abused children, describe two limitations of the current DSM system and discuss what would improve the culture of our diagnostic system?

References to use:

Hughes, D. (2017). Dyadic developmental psychotherapy (DDP): An attachment focused family treatment for developmental trauma. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy 38(4): 595-605. Retrieved from EbscoHost multisearch.

D’Andrea, W., Ford, J., Stolbach, B., Spinazzola, J., & van der Kolk, B. A. (2012). Understanding interpersonal trauma in children: Why we need a developmentally appropriate trauma diagnosis [PDF]. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 82(2), 187-200.