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The Center for Injury Research and Prevention and the Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have produced over a decade’s worth of research on children’s and parents’ reactions to injury. Following are a list of relevant publications. For more information, please visit each center’s individual website:

McKinnon A, Meiser-Stedman R, Watson P, Kassam-Adams N, Winston FK, et al. The latent structure of Acute Stress Disorder symptoms in trauma-exposed children and adolescents.J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2016;57(11):1308-1316.
Rodríguez-Rey R, Alonso-Tapia J, Kassam-Adams N, Garrido-Hernansaiz H. The factor structure of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory in parents of critically ill children. Psicothema. 2016;28(4):495-503.
Marsac ML, Kassam-Adams N. A Novel Adaptation of a Parent–Child Observational Assessment Tool for Appraisals and Coping in Children Exposed to Acute Trauma. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 2016;7.
Magruder KM, Kassam-Adams N, Thoresen S, Olff M. Prevention and public health approaches to trauma and traumatic stress: a rationale and a call to action. Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2016;7(3):29715
Marsac ML, Ciesla J, Barakat LP, et al. The Role of Appraisals and Coping in Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Following Pediatric Injury. Psychol Trauma. 2016.
Hildenbrand A, Marsac ML, Daly BP, Chute D, Kassam-Adams N. Acute Pain and Posttraumatic Stress After Pediatric Injury. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 2015.
Cronholm PF, Forke CM, Wade R, et al. Adverse Childhood Experiences: Expanding the Concept of Adversity. Am J Prev Med. 2015;49(3):354-61.
Kassam-Adams N, Marsac ML, García-España FJ, Winston FK. Evaluating predictive screening for children's post-injury mental health: New data and a replication. Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2015;6:29313.
Kassam-Adams N, Marsac ML, Kohser KL, Kenardy JA, March S, Winston FK. A New Method for Assessing Content Validity in Model-Based Creation and Iteration of eHealth Interventions. J. Med. Internet Res.. 2015;17(4):e95.
Marsac ML, Hildenbrand A, Ramsdell KD, Smith AJ. Posttraumatic Stress in School-age Children and Adolescents: Medical Providers' Role From Diagnosis to Optimal Management. Pediatric Health, Medicine and Therapeutics. 2015;2015:6(6):167-180.
Alisic E, Hoysted C, Adams NKassam, et al. "Psychosocial Care for Injured Children: Worldwide Survey among Hospital Emergency Department Staff." J. Pediatr.. 2015.
Marsac ML, Winston FK, Hildenbrand AK, et al. Systematic, theoretically-grounded development and feasibility testing of an innovative, preventive web-based game for children exposed to acute trauma. Clin Pract Pediatr Psychol. 2015;3(1):12-24.
Wilcox HC, Rains M, Belcher H, et al. Trauma Exposure, Service Utilization, Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Children With and Without Medical Problems Seeking Trauma-Related Mental Health Services. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2015.
Kassam-Adams N, Bakker A, Marsac ML, Fein JA, Winston FK. Traumatic Stress, Depression, and Recovery: Child and Parent Responses After Emergency Medical Care for Unintentional Injury. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2015;31(11):737-42.
Zonfrillo MR, Myers RK, Durbin D, Curry AE. Validation of Parent-Reported Injuries to Their Children. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2015.
Barber BA, Kohl KL, Kassam-Adams N, Gold JI. Acute stress, depression, and anxiety symptoms among english and spanish speaking children with recent trauma exposure.J Clin Psychol Med Settings. 2014;21(1):66-71.

Kassam-Adams, N. Design, delivery, and evaluation of early interventions for children exposed to acute trauma. Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2014;5.
Marsac, M.L., Donolon, K.A., Winston, F.K., Kassam-Adams, N. Child coping, parent coping assistance, and post-traumatic stress following pediatric physical injury.Child Care Health Dev. 2013;39(2):171-7.
Berkowitz, S.J., Fein, J.A. Childhood Traumatic Stress and the Emergency Department Visit. Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine 2013;14(1):41-46
Kassam-Adams, N., Fleisher, C., & Winston, F.K. Acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in parents of injured children. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 2009 Aug;22(4):294-302. doi: 10.1002/jts.20424.
Kassam-Adams N, Winston FK. Introducting Healthcare Providers to www.AfterTheInjury.org. The Maternal and Child Health Bureau's (MCHB) EMSC webcast. April 20, 2009. (Webcast presentation).
Kassam-Adams, N., Marsac, M., & Winston, F.K. (2009) AfterTheInjury.org: Development of a website for parents promoting secondary prevention of child traumatic stress. Conference proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop in Human and Societal Dynamics (Internet and Mental Health), Montreal.
Kassam-Adams, N. (2008). Prevention of Child Traumatic Stress Disorders. In G. Reyes, J. D. Elhai, & J. D. Ford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Psychological Trauma. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.
Pailler M., Kassam-Adams N., Datner E., & Fein J. (2007) Depression, acute stress and behavioral risk factors in violently injured adolescents. General Hospital Psychiatry, 29:357-63.
Kassam-Adams N, Garcia-Espana FJ, Miller VA, Winston FK. Parent-child agreement regarding children's acute stress: the role of parent acute stress reactions. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. December 2006 ; 45(12):1485-93
Kassam-Adams N. The Acute Stress Checklist for Children (ASC-Kids): Development of a Child Self-Report Measure. Journal of Traumatic Stress. February 2006 ; 19(1):11-11
Winston FK, Baxt C, Kassam-Adams N, Elliott MR, Kallan MJ. Acute traumatic stress symptoms in child occupants and their parent drivers after crash involvement. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. November 2005 ; 159(11):1074-9
Kazak A, Kassam-Adams N, Schneider S, Zelikovsky N, Alderfer M, Rourke M. An integrative model of pediatric medical traumatic stress. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. August 10 2005 (Epub ahead of print).
Kassam-Adams N. Introduction to the Special Issue: Posttraumatic Stress Related to Pediatric Illness and Injury. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. August 2005
Kassam-Adams N, Garcia-Espana FJ, Fein JA, Winston FK. Heart rate and posttraumatic stress in injured children. Archives of General Psychiatry. March 2005 ; 62(3):335-40
Baxt C, Kassam-Adams N, Nance ML, Vivarelli-O’Neill C, Winston FK. Assessment of pain after injury in the pediatric patient: child and parent perceptions. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. June 2004; 39(6):979-83
Kassam-Adams N, Winston FK. Predicting Child PTSD: the relationship between acute stress disorder and PTSD in injured children. Journal of Academic Child and Adolescent Psychology. April 2004 ; 43(4):403-11
Kassam-Adams N, Fein JA. Posttraumatic stress disorder and injury. Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine. 2003 ;4:148-55.Review.
Winston FK, Kassam-Adams N, Garcia-Espana FJ, Ittenbach R, Cnaan A. Screening for risk of persistent posttraumatic stress in injured children and their parents. JAMA. August 2003 ; 290(5):643-9
Fein JA, Kassam-Adams N, Gavin M, Huang R, Blanchard D, Datner EM.. Persistence of posttraumatic stress in violently injured youth seen in the emergency department. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. August 2002 ; 156(8):836-40
Winston F.K., Kassam-Adams N, Vivarelli-O'Neill, C., Ford, J., Newman, E., Baxt, C., Cnaan, A., & Stafford, P. Acute stress disorder symptoms in children and their parents after pediatric traffic injury. Pediatrics. 2002 Jun;109(6): e90
Horowitz L, Kassam-Adams N, Bergstein J. Mental health aspects of emergency medical services for children: summary of a consensus conference. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. December 2001 ;26(8):491-502
Fein, J., Kassam-Adams, N., Vu, T. & Datner, E. (2001). Emergency Department Evaluation of Acute Stress Disorder symptoms in violently injured youths. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 38:391-396
de Vries AP, Kassam-Adams N, Cnaan A, Sherman-Slate E, Gallagher PR, Winston FK. Looking beyond the physical injury: posttraumatic stress disorder in children and parents after pediatric traffic injury. Pediatrics. December 1999 ;104(6):1293-9