Arnon Bentovim - Episteme
Arnon Bentovim - Episteme
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