that involve personal injury or attack compared to those involving grief and loss are more likely to develop PTSD (Alisic et al., 2014). In the 1996 Detroit Area Study, 20.6% of those with PTSD reported some form of assaultive violence as their precipitating traumatic event, which included physical or sexual violence (Breslau et al., 1998). Using data from the National Survey of Adolescents, researchers found a link between physical, sexual, and witnessed violence and PTSD (Kilpatrick et al., 2003).
