Madison Haremza
Mrs.Healey
ELA 10
13 February 2023
Ways to Help Kids with Trauma More needs to be done to help kids with trauma because trauma will affect them throughout their lives. Awareness of trauma and helping kids early are some solutions.
Trauma will affect kids throughout their lives. A study was done on kids in a San Francisco neighborhood with high rates of poverty and violence. "Two-thirds of the children in the study had experienced at least one category of adversity, and 12 percent experienced four or more categories." Kids with a score of more than 4 "30 times as likely to show learning and behavior problems and twice as likely to be obese "(Carrion). Trauma affects kids because they are more likely to get mental disorders and illness. This shows they need support because dealing with mental disorders and illness are hard to deal with alone.
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The trauma causes behavior reactions like aggression and withdrawal. Most people don't recognize this as trauma and this cause more stress and not help them. (Hsu) This shows that people need to be more aware of trauma because they tell kids they have stuff like ADHD and anxiety but they don't wait to find out why they have it. That makes it worse especially if they have phobias.In TIC have one that works with the kids are specialists in trauma. they all work together to help the kids. They what to use this in early childhood programs.(Hsu) It is important to have trauma specialists because they know what to do and not to do. Also they can understand the kids better. This will help kids by giving them someone to look up and trust when they need it the