When one thinks of trauma one may associate it with trauma centers at medical centers or from television shows in which the cause of injury or death was blunt force trauma. NBC once aired a television shows called Trauma. The show Trauma was based on a group of paramedics in San Francisco, California and the traumatic situations they enouuntered as paramedics. While Webster’s dictionary defines it as "an injury (as a wound) to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agent:" It is also defined as "a disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from severe mental or emotional stress or physical injury" (merriam-webster, 2015). The brain changes throughout one's life. The cognitive functions and brain structure will change from early childhood
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(2014). Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series, No. 57. Retrieved from Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK207201/
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Howell, B. R., McCormack, K. M., Grand, A. P., N. T., Z. X., Maestripieri, D., & Sanchez, M. M. (2013, Dec 2). Brain white matter microstructure alterations in adolescent rhesus monkeys exposed to early life stress: associations with high cortisol during infancy. Retrieved from National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine: http://www.biolmoodanxietydisord.com/content/3/1/21 merriam-webster. (2015). trauma. Retrieved from merriam-webster.com: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trauma
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Perry, B. D. (2000). Traumatized Children: How Childhood Trauma Influences Brain Development. The Journal of the California Alliance for the Mentally Ill 11:1, 48-51.
Roehlkepartain et al. (2006). The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolesence. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks,
(2014). Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series, No. 57. Retrieved from Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK207201/
Feldman, R. S. (2014). Development Accross the Life Span. Upper Saddle Rivr, NJ: Pearson Education INC.
Howell, B. R., McCormack, K. M., Grand, A. P., N. T., Z. X., Maestripieri, D., & Sanchez, M. M. (2013, Dec 2). Brain white matter microstructure alterations in adolescent rhesus monkeys exposed to early life stress: associations with high cortisol during infancy. Retrieved from National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine: http://www.biolmoodanxietydisord.com/content/3/1/21 merriam-webster. (2015). trauma. Retrieved from merriam-webster.com: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trauma
Oppenheim, D., Goldsmith, D. F., & al, e. (2007). Attachment Theory in Clinical Work with Children. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Perry, B. D. (2000). Traumatized Children: How Childhood Trauma Influences Brain Development. The Journal of the California Alliance for the Mentally Ill 11:1, 48-51.
Roehlkepartain et al. (2006). The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolesence. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks,