PSYC 412 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Sex And The Law, Cognitive Flexibility, Family Therapy
29 Dec 2016
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There"s a significant link between childhood trauma and immediate and long-term mental health consequences. Some call childhood trauma (cid:498)the hidden epidemic. (cid:499) Childhood trauma can cause such forms of abnormal child development as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, etc. One in four youths report some major form of trauma before 16. Traumatic events are defined as exposure to actual or threatened harm or fear of death or injury. Stressful events are typically more common and less extreme. Stressors may be a single event like parent separation or may involve multiple or ongoing stressful events. Some stressful events are developmentally connected (going to school for the first time). Childhood bullying is now considered as a major stressor. Many traumatic and stressful events do not necessarily lead to a mental health disorder; they can affect ongoing developmental processes in disruptive ways. Trauma- and stressor- related disorders is a new category in the dsm-5; it includes acute stress disorder,
