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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]
Boys are also more likely to die from gun violence than girls: The analysis found that boys made up 83% of gun deaths in children and teens in 2021, while girls accounted for 17% of those deaths.
Firearms are the leading cause of death among children. A 2023 study in the journal Pediatrics found that gun-related injuries are the leading cause of death for young people in the U.S., with ...
Psychological trauma (also known as mental trauma, psychiatric trauma, emotional damage, or psychotrauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events, such as bodily injury, sexual violence, or other threats to the life of the subject or their loved ones; indirect exposure, such as from watching television news, may be extremely distressing and can produce an involuntary and ...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) [b] is a mental and behavioral disorder [8] that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.
[1] [21] The outbursts of anger can have an impact in domestic violence and street crime. The sense of emotional numbing , detachment and estrangement from other people can contribute to these, along with contributing to participation in further battle activities or to apathetic reactions when violence is done by others.
In most cases, children are the victims of physical abuse, but adults can also be victims, as in cases of domestic violence or workplace aggression. Alternative terms sometimes used include physical assault or physical violence, and may also include sexual abuse. Physical abuse may involve more than one abuser, and more than one victim.
A city prosecutor who handled shooting investigations once told me that the surgeons were able to piece people back together after the most horrific acts of violence. People went into the hospital damaged beyond belief and came walking out. That stuck with me. I wondered what surgeons know about gun violence that the rest of us don’t.