What is Trauma? - You Are Not Alone

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Health Education

Grade(s)

6, 7, 8

Overview

A researcher and psychotherapist explains how trauma affects children and teens and describes what can be done to help. Ginny Sprang, Ph.D., executive director of the Center on Trauma and Children at the University of Kentucky, explains how psychiatrists define trauma. Trauma can include direct exposure to physical or sexual harm, witnessing such harm, learning about a life-altering event such as a parent’s death, or repeated exposure to details of a traumatic event.

Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 6

HE19.6.1.1

Describe the interrelationship between social and emotional health in adolescence.

Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 6

HE19.6.5.1

Describe situations that can help or hinder making a healthy decision.

Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 7

HE19.7.1.3

Determine barriers to practicing healthy behaviors.

Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 7

HE19.7.5.1

Distinguish when a self-decision should be made or if help should be sought from a responsible adult.

Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 8

HE19.8.1.1

Explain how emotional, intellectual, physical, spiritual, mental, and social health affect each other.

CR Resource Type

Audio/Video

Resource Provider

PBS

License Type

CUSTOM

Accessibility

Video resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles
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