Psychiatric consequences of detaining migrant children at the US/Mexico border

An 8-year-old Central American boy presented to an emergency department after being separated from his father at the US/Mexico border, placed in a detention camp, and within days flown to a foster agency in a distant American city, experiencing a traumatic whirlwind of displacement and loss. On evaluation, he exhibited poor reality testing while identifying some inanimate objects as his missing family members, and others as weapons threatening...