Trauma a major event, normally seen as emotional, with physical sensations that occur in both the body and mind. Types of trauma are serious accidents, natural disasters, robbery, rape, urban violence, major surgeries, life threatening illness, chronic or repetitive experiences e.g. child abuse, neglect, war, combat and concentration camps. Trauma is not about what is wrong with someone, it is about what HAPPENED to them. Nonetheless, trauma may cause PTSD in some people, but not all.
However, my fondest memory of drama is in the summer of 1974, when I first experienced a taste of trauma, I was 13 years young. Walking along side my mother leaving from the neighborhood corner drug store and heading across the street to the dry cleaners. …show more content…
I was sure to be hit, if my mother had not pulled me down to the floor. Afterwards, my mother told me that whenever I hear “what sounds like a gun shot”, never try and look to see where or what's going on, get low to the ground, where ever I am. At that time gun shootings were not as prevalent as they are today.
The second incident was just as close. It also, involved my mother and me, at the (Furniture Liquidators Warehouse), I had purchased several pieces of furniture, made arrangements for delivery and leaving out of the entry/exit warehouse doors. Two men were also entering at the same time, which caused us to share this tiny hall space within the entry/exit doorway.
I was behind my mother and looked directly into the face of the man that passed her by, as he pulled a stocking cap over his head and face as we all struggled to pass by each other he reached down into his pants and pulled out a sawed-off shotgun that only I could see, so I began to push her forward to exit. My mother had no idea what was going on behind her and began to put up a fuss with the second robber about stepping on her …show more content…
The National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence indicates that more than 60 percent of children from birth to 17 years experience victimization and 38 percent witness violence sometime during childhood.
Victimization levels increase as youth reach adolescence; in fact, youth ages 12 to 24 suffer more violent crime than any other age group in the United States. Over the course of their lifetime, 71 percent of 14 to 17 year olds suffer assault; 28 percent sexual; 32 percent abuse or neglect; and 53 percent property victimization (including robbery).
Compared with other segments of the population, victimization rates for African American children and youth are even higher. Evidence suggests that Black youth ages 12 to 19 are victims of violent crime at significantly higher rates than their white peers. Black youth are three times more likely to be victims of reported child abuse or neglect, three times more likely to be victims of robbery, and five times more likely to be victims of homicide. In fact, homicide is the leading cause of death among African American youth ages 15 to
However, my fondest memory of drama is in the summer of 1974, when I first experienced a taste of trauma, I was 13 years young. Walking along side my mother leaving from the neighborhood corner drug store and heading across the street to the dry cleaners. …show more content…
I was sure to be hit, if my mother had not pulled me down to the floor. Afterwards, my mother told me that whenever I hear “what sounds like a gun shot”, never try and look to see where or what's going on, get low to the ground, where ever I am. At that time gun shootings were not as prevalent as they are today.
The second incident was just as close. It also, involved my mother and me, at the (Furniture Liquidators Warehouse), I had purchased several pieces of furniture, made arrangements for delivery and leaving out of the entry/exit warehouse doors. Two men were also entering at the same time, which caused us to share this tiny hall space within the entry/exit doorway.
I was behind my mother and looked directly into the face of the man that passed her by, as he pulled a stocking cap over his head and face as we all struggled to pass by each other he reached down into his pants and pulled out a sawed-off shotgun that only I could see, so I began to push her forward to exit. My mother had no idea what was going on behind her and began to put up a fuss with the second robber about stepping on her …show more content…
The National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence indicates that more than 60 percent of children from birth to 17 years experience victimization and 38 percent witness violence sometime during childhood.
Victimization levels increase as youth reach adolescence; in fact, youth ages 12 to 24 suffer more violent crime than any other age group in the United States. Over the course of their lifetime, 71 percent of 14 to 17 year olds suffer assault; 28 percent sexual; 32 percent abuse or neglect; and 53 percent property victimization (including robbery).
Compared with other segments of the population, victimization rates for African American children and youth are even higher. Evidence suggests that Black youth ages 12 to 19 are victims of violent crime at significantly higher rates than their white peers. Black youth are three times more likely to be victims of reported child abuse or neglect, three times more likely to be victims of robbery, and five times more likely to be victims of homicide. In fact, homicide is the leading cause of death among African American youth ages 15 to