{"id":46,"date":"2018-05-04T18:17:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T18:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.nyu.edu\/highbridge\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2018-05-04T18:17:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T18:17:39","slug":"definitions-of-trauma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kristengravesportfolio.com\/Highbridge\/project\/paper\/definitions-of-trauma\/","title":{"rendered":"Definitions of Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trauma does not only exist for soldiers and refugees. It can be subjectively and objectively defined, and that definition changes depending on the individual. The University of North Texas recently published a study stating that even though an individual may be exposed to an event that passed the study\u2019s measurement threshold to be qualified as traumatizing, the event may not have been subjectively described by the individual as traumatizing. The reverse was also true (Boals, 2018). Traumatized youths are those considered traumatized, based on their personal experiences, so basically, if one feels traumatized\u2014one has been traumatized (Development Services Group, 2016).<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not, and do not claim to be a mental health professional. I do however, have 17 years of experience working with kids, particularly working with kids labeled at-risk. So, while I\u2019m not professionally trained, given my experience, I found it notable that despite the proximity to violence that exists for children at HBV, and considering this proximity to violence as trauma\u2014I did not observe acts of anxiety, depression, or misbehavior. Perhaps that\u2019s because of the behavior contract signed and understood by the HBV community, but short of a few kids needing to take a break during class (when children are disruptive, they\u2019re asked to step out of the classroom for five minutes to recenter) and one boy visibly upset with his SAT practice test results (which I attributed to him being a perfectionist), I didn\u2019t observe any behavior that would be flagged as being triggered by trauma. In the future, I\u2019d like to interview the kids and their families to see how they perceive their environment, and how that compares to how it was written about in the series in The<\/i> New York Times<\/i>. From the perspective of The<\/i> Times<\/i>, these kids are being chronically exposed to violence, and a study done in the Bronx described children in particular, as vulnerable to suffering from \u201ccompounded community trauma\u201d (Dean, DeVoe, McKay, & Traube, 2005). Based on the experience I have and research I\u2019ve done, trauma can be caused by poverty, proximity to violence, racial, political, and economic oppression, and violence in the media (particularly when looking at coverage of the violent treatment of of black and brown bodies). With that understanding, the children of HBV live in a consistently traumatic environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Trauma does not only exist for soldiers and refugees. It can be subjectively and objectively defined, and that definition changes depending on the individual. The University of North Texas recently published a study stating that even though an individual may be exposed to an event that passed the study\u2019s measurement threshold to be qualified as … Continue reading Definitions of Trauma<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristengravesportfolio.com\/Highbridge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristengravesportfolio.com\/Highbridge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristengravesportfolio.com\/Highbridge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristengravesportfolio.com\/Highbridge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristengravesportfolio.com\/Highbridge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kristengravesportfolio.com\/Highbridge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristengravesportfolio.com\/Highbridge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristengravesportfolio.com\/Highbridge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}