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Research Article
Challenges associated with exposure to chronic trauma:Using a public health framework to foster resilient outcomes among youth
Article first published online: 20 JUN 2011
DOI: 10.1002/pits.20584
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Psychology in the Schools
Special Issue: Resilience in Schools
Volume 48, Issue 7, pages 738–754, August 2011
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How to Cite
Overstreet, S. and Mathews, T. (2011), Challenges associated with exposure to chronic trauma:Using a public health framework to foster resilient outcomes among youth. Psychol. Schs., 48: 738–754. doi: 10.1002/pits.20584
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- Issue published online: 5 JUL 2011
- Article first published online: 20 JUN 2011
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Abstract
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.