By The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

When a child feels intensely threatened by an event he or she is involved in or witnesses, we call that event a trauma. There is a range of traumatic events or trauma types to which children and adolescents can be exposed.

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What is Childhood Trauma: Trauma Types

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