Acute Response to Children Coping Traumatic Exposure to Domestic Violence

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Acute Response to Children Coping Traumatic
Exposure to Domestic Violence

• What Do We Know?
• What Do We Do?
• Dr. James Lewis III.
• Chief Operating Officer NCCEV
• New Haven Police Services/Yale Child Study Center

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What is Psychological Trauma?

• Events are not traumatic, but they are
  potentially traumatogenic.
• There are types of events that are more likely to
  be traumatic than others
• However, the individuals subjective experience
  is likely the most salient factor
• An upcoming exam may cause stress in one child,
  but not in another or the World Trade Center
  attack may cause serious symptoms in one while
  being mildly disturbing to another

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Physical Displacementand Social Disruption

• Physical displacement and social disruption has
  been found to be the highest correlated factor
  related to outcome after traumatic events. (Laor,
  Wolmer, Cohen, 2001 Laor et al., 1997 Laor,
  Wolmer, Mayes, Golomb, et al., 1996 Lonigan et
  al., 1994)