Motivation: Upon arrival on the scene, EMT-B's sometimes mistake dramatic fractures for life threatening injuries. The intent of this drill is to remind rescuers that extremity trauma rarely causes a ...

Zero preventive trauma deaths. Is it possible, and do first responders hold the key to this lofty goal? Trauma accounts for at least 200,000 U.S. deaths per year. Recognizing this, in its 2016 report, ...

Generational trauma occurs when parents unintentionally pass their trauma down to their kids. Generational trauma can affect multiple generations over the course of hundreds of years. Learning to ...

In Part 1 of Trauma Informed Assessments, I suggested that it’s not only important for clinicians to put presenting problems in a historical context of possible trauma, abuse or neglect, I also ...

When social worker Jim Henry met the 7-year-old, she was living with an aunt after her mother died. The girl was struggling in school. Wasn’t sleeping. Had emotional issues. Henry drew two houses on a ...

Intergenerational trauma occurs when multiple generations of a family feel the effects of past traumatic events. These effects can be emotional or physical. Traumatic events can influence a person’s ...

Trauma bonding is a psychological response to abuse. The person experiencing abuse may develop sympathy for the abusive person, which becomes reinforced by cycles of abuse, followed by remorse. Trauma ...

In Part 1 of Trauma Informed Assessments, I suggested that it’s not only important for clinicians to put presenting problems in a historical context of possible trauma, abuse or neglect, I also ...