Age-Related Reactions to a Traumatic Event

Description: This resource discusses how children at different ages respond to traumatic events. The goal is to provide parents, physicians, communities, and schools with better education about how children experience traumatic events and how these children express their lingering distress over the experience.

Format: One Pager/Fact Sheet

Updated/Published: 2010

This material was developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). Shared here with attribution to the original source.

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