The Lasting Effects of Childhood Traumas

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This paper, presented as a cause and effect essay as opposed to a research paper, focuses on the effects and eventual treatment of childhood trauma. This paper discusses how and why experts must treat cases of childhood trauma much in the same manner as one would handle cases of child abuse or neglect. This paper delves into the motivations and the implications of violence and trauma being exposed to children and its significant impact on both their personality and psychological development. This paper also looks at how a child's cognitive and emotional development are impacted in later stages, long after the initial traumatic experience. The writer of this paper explores the treatments and therapies available to both parents and children in dealing with the long-term effects of neglect, abuse as well as exposure to traumatic events.

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"It is also important to think of personality development and how to present things such as patterns of family violence, concentrating specifically on domestic violence among families in need. A lot of people don't know about differentiations made in the terminology of abuse such as discrete and episodic violence. I learned about violence being used to abuse children as being pushing, shouting, and yelling. In terms of violence, there is a lot of psychological and sexual abuse of children that goes on that affects their development, and this does not concentrate only on physical abuse. This makes the definition of trauma broader. In terms of physical abuse, this facet of child abuse can be divided into sections of mild abuse, severe abuse, and abuse resulting in injury."

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