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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most recently, DSM modifications for PTSD included a subtype group for children aged younger than 6 years. 18 Research has shown when diagnostic criteria that are sensitive to child developmental ...

This first article in a series on trauma nursing introduces the main aspects of major trauma, the different elements of the trauma care pathway from pre-hospital care to rehabilitation, and the ...