Summary
Acknowledging, understanding, and dealing with childhood trauma is extremely important. Many children suffer from childhood traumas, such as child abuse and neglect, homelessness, and food insecurity. Childhood trauma shapes the adults children eventually become and encodes into their future whether they will be strong and confident adults ready to handle tomorrow's challenges or they are at risk for becoming fearful and anxious individuals.
The Encyclopedia of Childhood Trauma concentrates on multiple aspects of childhood trauma of concern to our society, such as adverse childhood experiences and their lifelong effects, school and community violence, and the psychiatric problems stemming from childhood trauma. This encyclopedia highlights major problems with the outcomes of children and adults harmed by childhood trauma, how adults and health professionals can recognize signs of trauma, and how children can be treated to cope with serious problems caused by trauma.
Articles include:
- adverse childhood experiences
- bullying and cyberbullying
- child physical abuse
- childhood neglect
- emotional abuse and neglect
- Kaiser Adverse Child Experiences (ACE) study
- posttraumatic stress disorder
- school shootings
- shaken baby syndrome
- trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy
About the Author(s)
Mark S. Gold, M.D., is the chief of the Division of Addiction Medicine in the psychiatry department at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He is also a professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine in the departments of psychiatry, neuroscience, community health, and family medicine. He is the editor, the coeditor, or on the editorial board of numerous publications, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, Psychopharmacology, Archives of General Psychiatry, The American Journal of Psychiatry, The Lancet, American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Journal of Addictive Disease, Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, Pharmacotherapy, and Postgraduate Medicine.
Christine Adamec is a medical writer who has coauthored many books, including The Encyclopedia of Adoption, Third Edition; The Encyclopedia of Elder Care; The Encyclopedia of Endocrine Diseases and Disorders; and The Encyclopedia of the Digestive System and Digestive Disorders, Second Edition, all for Facts On File. In addition, she has coauthored three editions of The Encyclopedia of Child Abuse and three editions of The Encyclopedia of Adoption. She has also coauthored medical books for other publishers including Fibromyalgia for Dummies, Prostate Cancer for Dummies, and How to Stop Heartburn.