With this new practical guide, pediatricians and other child health professionals will learn to identify, evaluate, and treat children and families affected by trauma and adversity when they present at the office. Available for purchase at https://shop.aap.org/childhood-trauma-and-resilience-a-practical-guide-paperback/ (NOTE: This book features a full text reading experience. Click a chapter title to access content.)
7: How Trauma Can Manifest in Children and Teens
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Published:July 2021
"How Trauma Can Manifest in Children and Teens", Childhood Trauma & Resilience: A Practical Guide, Heather C. Forkey, MD, FAAP, Jessica L. Griffin, PsyD, Moira Szilagyi, MD, PhD, FAAP
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In health care, recognizing symptoms and symptom complexes is critical. Medical training is organized to promote recognition of the early, middle, and late signs and symptoms of illness to identify and manage problems and promote healing and recovery. However, recognizing the evolving symptoms of trauma has not traditionally been included in medical training, including pediatric training. Further complicating this lack of inclusion is the fact that the signs and symptoms of trauma in children are affected by
In this chapter, we discuss how each of these factors affects the clinical presentation of trauma.
The most basic consideration is that trauma...