Childhood Trauma In Children

Symptoms that adults that suffer from childhood traumatic occurrence might display include “sleep problems, increased agitation, hypervigilance, isolation or withdrawal, and increased use of alcohol or drugs. Older adults may exhibit increased withdrawal and isolation, reluctance to leave home, worsening of chronic illnesses, confusion, depression, and fear” (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, 2014). There symptoms are the negative impact that childhood traumatic experience have on the social development for this population. Initially, victims may not know they are traumatized until they seek assistance. Many of the resurfacing of trauma for adults takes a while because it has become a long term issue that has been normalized or

Traumatized children show outcomes of negative physical and mental health once entering adulthood. DeJong talks about the different types of stress. In this section of the article, the author describes the difference between positive stress, tolerable stress, and toxic stress. DeJong describes tolerable stress as having supportive relationships, whereas he describes toxic stress as having a lack of supportive relationships. The author states that experiencing toxic stress in early in childhood could lead to child traumatic stress. According to DeJong, “Child traumatic stress is the physical and emotional responses of a child to events that threaten the life or physical integrity of the child or of someone critically important to the child” (205). Traumatic stress occurs in response to a single traumatic event or reoccurring traumatic events. The author states traumatic stress could lead to toxic stress if it makes changes to the way the body reacts to it. As the article continues, the author begins to describe the effects of toxic stress in multiple body systems. DeJong describes the effects of toxic stress on the social/ behavioral system, the brain and neuroendocrine system, and the molecular and genetic levels. The tone of these sections of the article is very informal. The author did a great job of providing an explanation of the consequences of domestic violence exposure to children, as well as

Your introduction is very engaging and emphasizes the important role of communication after experiencing trauma. I believe your topic is very relatable because there is a sense of denial, seclusion, and dissociation that correlates with trauma and loss that many of us have experienced. Open communication within a family unit provides opportunities to express thoughts and feelings and develop appropriate coping strategies (Zambianchi & Bitti, 2014). In your intro you stated, "The impact childhood trauma has on our society and on children." As a suggestion, maybe you could expand on this statement or state specific impacts childhood trauma has on our society or on children. I love your examples of evidenced based interventions and how

In the Journal of Traumatic Stress, the article “Stress Among Young Urban Children Exposed to Family Violence and Other Potentially Traumatic Events” by Cindy A. Crusto of Yale University School of Medicine, Melissa L. Whitson of the University of New Haven, Sherry M. Walling of Fresno Pacific University, Richard Feinn of the University of Connecticut Health Sciences Center, Farmington, Stacey R. Friedman of the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER), Jesse Reynolds of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Mona Amer of the American University at Cairo, and Joy S. Kaufman of Yale University School of Medicine takes a look at traumatic events experienced by children

Through research we have found that Trauma has many lasting effects on children and adults of any age. The effects usually do not change until the person has learned to cope with the traumatic event. After the trauma has been treated many still must cope with triggers or daily reminders of the past. Unfortunately, there is no way to erase the past, but learning proper coping skills, an outlet, therapy whether it’s with a friend/family or therapist, and or medication.

Traumatic experiences are a reality in this world, a reality most of the world want to turn their eyes away from and act as if it does not exist; unfortunately, victims of childhood trauma aren’t so lucky. Childhood trauma, massively increases health risk while lowering life expectancy, however, many forms of abuse remain undocumented. Neglect along with emotional, physical, and sexual abuse continue to haunt victims throughout life. Exposure to trauma permanently changes the bodies physiology which in return may cause anxiety, distress, dependency, insomnia, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Issues of childhood trauma can and should be prevented in correlation with an increase of awareness.

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A child, for example, may go through a traumatic experience that may consist of either exposure to verbal or physical violence between parents or physical abuse towards the child (Kozlowska & Hanney, 2001). Young children tend to be more vulnerable to the negative effects of domestic violence (Webb, 2007). For example, children who live in a home with domestic violence that includes physical assault, mental humiliation and degradation, are likely to have lower interpersonal sensitivity, empathy and also lack appropriate interpersonal problem solving skills (Thompson & Trice-Black, 2012). As a result, when children who are exposed to this, they are at a greater risk for developing violent behaviour, criminal activity, and poor parenting practices when they transition into adulthood (Thompson & Trice-Black,

Charlie went through repressing intense feelings caused by a series of unfortunate events in his life. When a childhood trauma is unresolved it can lead to future intimacy problems. For example, as Sam and Charlie became intimate, he becomes uncomfortable, “ It was like everything made sense. Until she moved her hands under my pants, and she touched me. That’s when I stopped her.” Despite the fact that he wanted this to happen since the day he met her, he couldn’t go through with it. When an individual experiences trauma as a child, being physically and emotionally intimate becomes a task as one grows older. The ‘unresolved emotional trauma’ he suffered deprived him of the simplest of things, loving back.

Constant re-exposure to a traumatic event is a contributor to drug use; however, research by Giordano, Ohlsson, Kendler, Sundquist & Sundquist (2011) hypothesized that “second-hand experiences of trauma during childhood are also capable of evoking emotional stress and therefore, have the potential to affect later drug use” (p. 1120). Second-hand experiences where defined at a parent or sibling being assaulted, suffering from a severe disability or even dying. After completion of this longitudinal study, it was found that children who were exposed to second-hand trauma used drugs beginning during their young adult years of 15-26. Young adults between the ages of 15-26 were twice the risk of developing a drug use disorder than those who did

Trauma can be described in many ways physical, sexual, emotional or mentally. For children and adolescent’s trauma and being victims of trauma can come for three different factors such as genetic or biological factors such as a DNA, problems with chromosomes, age of the parents during conception, or anything that may have affected the fetus/infant’s prenatal or post-natal care; environmental factors include surrounding areas both inside and outside of the home; and lasting their social or personal relationships, thus can include bullying, or assault (D’Andrea, Ford, Stolbach, Spinazzola, & Van der Kolk, 2012). Interpersonal trauma can affect a child/adolescents social, psychological, cognitive and biological development (D’Andrea, Ford,

Despite the negative findings about trauma in children there is some positive findings as well. Findings show that teachers can play an important role and help alter the learning process on childhood trauma victims by understanding the signs being presented, helping and taking action with the broken students within the class, and bring to mind outside professionals as needed.

Bellis and Zisk (2014).This article is about how childhood trauma effects psychosocial, medical, and public policy. When trauma happens in a child's developmental stage, it creates overwhelming stress. Chronic intrapersonal violence is extremely common in children all over the world. The article says that childhood traumas is a fairly new study, so there is not as much information about traumas as adolescents versus adults. The authors goals is to show the long and short term effect on children after these traumatic experiences.

There are many types of trauma that can effect an adolescent and without the proper treatment of the traumatic event the adolescent can have difficulty adapting and developing into adulthood. Kathleen J. Moroz, of the Vermont Agency of Human Services, defines trauma as a physical or psychological threat or assault to a child’s physical integrity, sense of self, safety of survival or to the physical safety of another person significant to the child. She goes on to list the types of trauma a child may be exposed to. Abuse of every kind, domestic violence, natural disasters, abandonment, serious illness or an accident are just a few traumatic events that can effect the development of a child. (2) When these events occur as an acute event

The topic that I have decided to write about is childhood trauma. I wanted to research the lifelong health effects that are caused by childhood trauma. One thing that has always concerned me is the life of children growing up in war-zones or areas with extreme poverty and crime. I assume that there is a correlation between traumatic experiences and health. Many people would argue that the correlation behind it is that it is more likely that a person makes bad health decisions like drinking and doing drugs when they grow up in those conditions but I know that there is research that can directly link a bad experience to health. This is something that I am really eager to research and learn more about, and something I’d like the world to know about. This country and many countries have been involved in ongoing wars in the Middle East. There are thousands and thousands of children growing up experiencing traumatizing events. It is important to understand the way war affects these children. It is something to consider when our country decides to accept Syrian refugees to our country. I have grown up in low-income neighborhoods with high crime rates and I have witnessed people getting killed as well as lost several friends due to gang violence. I’ve also noticed many students at school who grew up in tough homes, were the same students having a hard time at school and eventually end up in the wrong paths. I understand that traumatic experiences and growing up in these