Childhood Trauma Assignment

Childhood Trauma Assignment

Childhood Trauma Assignment Instructions

Assignment 1:

Choose a kind of childhood trauma and address;

1. How common is it for children to experience this kind of trauma?

2. Are there specific effects that result from this kind of childhood trauma?

3. What kinds of behaviors do children who have undergone this kind of trauma demonstrate?

4. Many trauma interventions are developed from heartfelt concern for children and their families, but have no scientific basis. Give at least one example of an intervention that is well-meant, but not based in science, and one that has a scientific underpinning.

· Natural disasters

· Terrorism

· Illness

· Abuse

· Divorce

· Economic stress

· Military family stress, PTSD

The paper will be submitted in MS word or RTF format only. None of the questions are to be re-copied into your paper.

You will be graded on these factors:

Possible grade

Student grade

The paper addresses the issues specified by the assignment

20

The author shows insight and sophistication in thinking and writing

30

Three citations were used; websites are acceptable

20

Paper was well organized and easy to follow. Paper was at least 1000 words, not including cover page or references. Running head, cover page, abstract, paper body, in-text citations and Reference page, and overall formatting were in the American Psychological Association format.

20

Few to no spelling, grammar, punctuation or other writing structure errors

10

TOTAL

100

Submission

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Introduction

Topics to be covered include:

Understanding natural disasters

Dimensions of impact

Stages of disaster

Responding to disaster

Humanitarian response

Some forms of childhood trauma can be avoided, but others are unavoidable, including the trauma produced by disasters, including both technological and natural disasters. These disasters uproot lives, cause deaths and injuries, and lead to long-term challenges with infrastructure. For families with children, disaster produces loss, financial instability, and significant parental stress.

Technological and Natural Disasters

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Children are often impacted by events that parents and families cannot control, like technological and natural disasters. These events disrupt daily life in significant ways, leaving children to manage the loss of homes, possessions, or even parents and family members, depending upon the severity of the disaster. Not all disasters can be predicted, and families may have a limited ability to respond, even when the disaster is expected. The impact of natural disasters is most substantial on families with limited financial and social resources, and in regions of the world with limited economic resources.

Natural disasters include weather related disasters (e.g., earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, cyclones, droughts, landslides, fires etc.). Technological accidents also can cause widespread harm both environmentally and to people and animals. Examples of technological accidents can include: oil spills caused by tankers or oil rig accidents, and nuclear accidents etc. Within the last 50 years, examples include nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania and in Chernobyl. (Silei, n.d.) More recent examples include the British Petroleum (BP)oil spill in the Gulf, USA. Dam collapses are also an example of technological disasters.

Between 1994 and 2013, on average, 218 million people were impacted by natural disasters each year, and there were 68,000 deaths attributable to natural disasters on average each year. In total, over this period, 1.35 million lives were lost to natural disasters. These numbers may help you to recognize the overall scope of natural disasters, and the damage they cause. Many of those 218 million people affected each year will be traumatized by the disaster, and, as you might expect, many of that number are children (Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, 2015).

Role of Population Growth and Economic Development

Both population growth and economic development play a greater role in the damage done by natural disasters than does climate change. As populations have increased, building and construction in natural flood plains has occurred, increasing the risk of flooding. In addition, this increased population density and economic development in, for instance, an earthquake prone area, places far more people at risk (Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, 2015).

Flooding is the most common form of natural disaster, accounting for 44 percent of natural disasters recorded in this period.

Storms of all sorts are the most financially costly form of disaster, costing in total some 936 billion dollars between 1994 and 2013. They are also the second most deadly form of disaster.

Earthquakes, including tsunamis, have caused the greatest loss of life of any type of natural disaster during this period. Tsunamis have been responsible for the greatest loss of life and are approximately 20 times more dangerous than an earthquake.

Drought is also a natural disaster, although it accounts for only 4 percent of total natural disasters. It does, however, disproportionately impact developing countries, particularly those in Africa (Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, 2015).

Difficulty in Making Comparisons

It is difficult to accurately determine which countries are most significantly impacted by natural disasters; in broad terms, the United States and China experience the largest number; however, this has to do with the land mass, rather than anything else.

During the period studied, death rates have increased overall in natural disasters. This is in part because this tallying includes three mega-disasters, the 2004 Asian tsunami, Cyclone Nargis in 2008 and the 2010 Haitian earthquake that caused huge numbers of deaths. The trend is present even when these incidents are removed from the calculations.

Understanding Natural Disasters

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Weather and Geophysical Causes

Natural disasters include both weather-related and geophysical phenomena. Geophysical disasters are those caused by shifts and changes in geology. These include earthquakes, tsunamis or seismic sea waves, and volcanic eruptions. Th

Death Rates Vary by Income

Throughout this course, you will consider the impact that economics has on trauma. This impact is also seen in natural disasters, to an extreme degree. More than three times as many people died in low-income countries from natural disasters than in higher income, developed countries. Higher income countries experienced 56 percent of all natural disasters, but only 32 percent of the total lives lost. Lower income countries experienced only 44 percent of all natural disasters, but 68 percent of lives lost between 1994 and 2013 (Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, 2015).

ese have remained broadly constant through the period. Weather and climate-related natural disasters include hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and other storms have, on the other hand, increased significantly. the period between 2000 and 2015 saw a 44 percent Disaster Risk Reduction

As you learn about natural disasters, you will also learn about disaster risk reduction; knowing who is most impacted by natural disasters and how they are impacted is essential for disaster risk reduction, or lowering the total impact of natural disasters. In addition, these statistics make clear that it is essential to address the impact of natural disasters in developing countries, as well as to more effectively manage flood control, with the increase in flooding events.

increase in weather-related natural disasters over the period of 1994 to 2000 and this occurrence was more than double that of 1980 to 1989. While climate-related factors play a role in this increase in weather-related natural disasters, they are not the primary contributing factor (Centr

Impact Ratio