My work with adult victims of childhood trauma supports your idea. Recent trauma and re-traumatization most always has a basis in childhood, thus, adult reactions to trauma remain the responses of the "hurt child" within. One important result for me as a clinical supervisor is helping our staff to evaluate clients first based on what we know of their trauma history rather than conceptualizing a "diagnosis." It is amazing how one's approach in therapy changes when we think of persons as "hurting" rather than "broken."
Cris Cannon, D. Min., LPC-MHSP, ACS
Nashville