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Challenges associated with exposure to chronic trauma:Using a public health framework to foster resilient outcomes among youth
Author(s) -
Overstreet Stacy,
Mathews Tara
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/pits.20584
Subject(s) - psychosocial , psychological resilience , psychology , clinical psychology , public health , emotional and behavioral disorders , social work , developmental psychology , psychiatry , medicine , psychotherapist , nursing , reading (process) , economic growth , political science , law , economics , dyslexia
For many children, trauma exposure is a common and chronic experience. Chronic trauma exposure during childhood significantly increases the risk for emotional/behavioral disorders and academic failure. There is a critical need for school psychologists, and the schools in which they work, to understand the unique needs of students with or at risk for emotional disorders or academic difficulties secondary to trauma exposure. This article reviews the effects of trauma exposure on the psychosocial and academic functioning of children and discusses a public health framework for building social‐emotional protective factors into the school setting to foster resilience to trauma. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.