Preventable Abuse
What More Should We Be Doing To Ward Off Childhood Trauma?
Epidemiologists have found that childhood trauma leaves more than just bad memories. Children who suffer trauma often become adults with physical ailments like heart disease. And trauma can perpetuate trauma. Our states and cities have some programs in place that are intended to intervene in the lives of children to prevent trauma, but what more should we do? This was the question we posed in advance of “Can Childhood Trauma Make Your Sick?“, a Zócalo event.
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Day after day I counsel people who have experienced trauma in their …
