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Arnon Bentovim - Episteme

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U.S. Perspective of the Impact of Trauma on<br />

Development<br />

(Harris, Lieberman and Marans JCPP 2007)<br />

• ‘Each year exposure to violent trauma takes its<br />

toll on the development of children<br />

• Children are at increasing risk of school failure,<br />

anxiety, depression and PTSD; alcohol and drug<br />

abuse; the perpetration of the violence to which<br />

they were exposed<br />

• ‘Troubled children’ in education system, child<br />

protection, law enforcement, substance abuse,<br />

criminal justice<br />

• The root of their problem – exposure to violence<br />

and and abuse is unrecognised

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