Violence and Trauma in the Lives of Children: [2 volumes]

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Explains the neurological, emotional, and behavioral impacts of violence and trauma experienced by newborns, infants, children, and teenagers. Traumatic events known as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can affect children physically, mentally, and emotionally, sometimes with long-term health and behavioral effects. Abuse, neglect, exposure to community and domestic violence, and household dysfunction all have the potential to alter brain development and behavior, but few people are able to recognize or respond to trauma in children. Given the prevalence of childhood exposure to violencewith one in four children ages 5 to 15 living in households with only moderate levels of safety and nurturance and infants and children ages 0 to 3 comprising the highest percentage of those maltreatedit is imperative that students and professionals alike be able to identify types and consequences of violence and trauma. This book provides readers with the information they need in order to know how to detect and prevent ACEs and to help children who have lived through them.

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Students in psychology, sociology, and in particular social work courses will find this a valuable resource because of the scope of its topics. * Library Journal *
Essential. Advanced undergraduates and above; professionals. * Choice *

Author Bio

Joy D. Osofsky, PhD, is clinical and developmental psychologist, Paul J. Ramsay Chair of Psychiatry, and Barbara Lemann Professor of Child Welfare at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. Betsy McAlister Groves, MSW, LICSW, is founding director of the Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center, a program that has received national recognition for its work with children affected by violence.