Violence and Trauma in the Lives of Children

Explains the neurological, emotional, and behavioral impacts of violence and trauma experienced by newborns, infants, children, and teenagers.
Traumatic events known as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can affect children physically, mentally, and emotionally, sometimes with long-term health and behavioral effects. Abuse, neglect, exposure to community and domestic violence, and household dysfunction all have the potential to alter brain development and behavior, but few people are able to recognize or respond to trauma in children.
Given the prevalence of childhood exposure to violence-with one in four children ages 5 to 15 living in households with only moderate levels of safety and nurturance and infants and children ages 0 to 3 comprising the highest percentage of those maltreated-it is imperative that students and professionals alike be able to identify types and consequences of violence and trauma. This book provides readers with the information they need in order to know how to detect and prevent ACEs and to help children who have lived through them.

Joy D. Osofsky, PhD, is clinical and developmental psychologist, Paul J. Ramsay Chair of Psychiatry, and Barbara Lemann Professor of Child Welfare at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.
Betsy McAlister Groves, MSW, LICSW, is founding director of the Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center, a program that has received national recognition for its work with children affected by violence.

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction
Betsy McAlister Groves and Joy D. Osofsky
Chapter 2 Making Meaning from Trauma and Violence: The Influence of Culture, Traditional Beliefs, and Historical Trauma
Marva L. Lewis, Neena McConnico, and Riana Elyse Anderson
Chapter 3 Resilience in the Context of Violence and Trauma: Promotive and Protective Processes of Positive Caregiving
Angela J. Narayan and Ann S. Masten
Chapter 4 Posttraumatic Growth and Resilience
Laura Marie Armstrong, Cecily Basquin, and Richard Tedeschi
Chapter 5 Trauma-Informed Care in the Pediatric Primary Care Setting
Larry Wissow and Betsy McAlister Groves
Chapter 6 Trauma-Informed Schools and a Framework for Action
Christopher Blodgett
Chapter 7 Addressing Child Trauma within the Child Welfare System: Prevention and Intervention Approaches
Brenda Jones Harden and Aimee Drouin Duncan
Chapter 8 Exposure to Terrorism and Disasters
Howard J. Osofsky, Joy D. Osofsky, Anthony H. Speier, and Tonya Cross Hansel
Chapter 9 Judicial Perspective on Violence and Trauma within the Family
Judge Constance Cohen (Ret.) and Joy D. Osofsky
Chapter 10 The Ripple Effect of Trauma: Individuals, Organizations, and Society
Erika Tullberg and Nawal Muradwij
Chapter 11 From Adverse Childhood Experiences to Adverse Community Experiences: Addressing and Preventing Community Trauma
Howard Pinderhughes and Rachel Davis
Chapter 12 U.S. Federal Policy Efforts to Address Violence and Trauma in the Lives of Children
Ellen Gerrity, Diane Elmore Borbon, and Holly M. Strain
Chapter 13 Infant and Early Childhood Trauma: Policy Opportunities and Systemic Responses
Cindy Oser, Julie Cohen, Patricia A. Cole, Janie Huddleston, and Lindsay Usry
About the Editors and Contributors
Index