What is classified as general trauma?
Traumatic life experiences challenge a person’s normal coping efforts. For children and adolescents, traumatic experiences include such things as sexual and other physical abuse and neglect, peer or family suicide, dog bites, severe burns, natural disasters (e.g. floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc.), fires, and medical procedures. It can be traumatic for children to witness or experience violent crimes (e.g., kidnapping, sniper fire, and school shootings) or vehicle accidents such as automobile and plane crashes. Witnessing assault, rape, or murder of a parent can also be traumatic for children. What are signs of traumatic grief? Grief is defined as a deep, painful psychological wound caused by loss, misfortune, or disaster. Traumatic grief is a condition that can effect children’s achievement, relationships, development, and later effectiveness in life if not treated or otherwise resolved How do you define child sexual abuse? Child sexual abuse is forced, tricked, or coerced sexual be
