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The effects of childhood trauma on brain development can hinder emotional regulation and impair of social skill [7] development. Research indicates that children raised in traumatic or risky family environments often display excessive internalizing (e.g., social withdrawal, anxiety) or externalizing (e.g., aggressive behavior), and suicidal ...
The effects of this trauma can be experienced very differently depending on factors such as how long the trauma was, how severe and even the age of the child when it occurred. Negative childhood experiences can have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity. [ 3 ]
Children present a unique challenge in trauma care because they are so different from adults - anatomically, developmentally, physiologically and emotionally. A 2006 study concluded that the risk of death for injured children is lower when care is provided in pediatric trauma centers rather than in non-pediatric trauma centers. Yet about 10% of ...
Trauma is defined as an emotional response to an event that threatens physical or emotional harm, or death, and “causes horror, terror, or helplessness at the time it occurs,” according to the ...
Children who have faced trauma encounter more learning challenges in school and higher levels of stress internally. [102] Building literacy skills can be negatively impacted both by the lack of literacy experiences in the home, missing parts of early-childhood education, and by actually altering brain development.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2011), there were 408,425 youth in the United States in foster care in 2010. [2] Foster care is a division of child welfare services that places a child in an interim home when parents or guardians are unable or unwilling to adequately care for the child [3] or when the child has experienced a trauma by the guardians or parents. [2]
The multifinality of trauma may be explained by moderating variables such as type, frequency, duration, severity, and/or age at time of trauma. [7] In addition to being dose-dependent, the effect of trauma has also been shown to be cumulative, in which multiple traumatic experiences can aggregate, enhancing downstream adverse consequences. [7]
The physical effects of domestic violence on children, unlike the effects of direct abuse, can start when they are a fetus in their mother's womb, which can result in low infant birth weights, premature birth, excessive bleeding, and fetal death due to the mother's physical trauma and emotional stress.