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This is a 5 page paper discussing the need for trauma assessment in the treatment of trauma. The incidence of physical and mental trauma has increased in the past several decades resulting in the need for accurate assessment tools. Physical trauma is now considered a “disease” because of its high incident rates and the eventual loss of life in many patients who experience physical trauma. In a similar way, researchers studying mental trauma have also found an increase in incidence and the need for early intervention and treatment if possible to aid those experiencing trauma and post-traumatic stress (PTS). Childhood trauma which results from single violent or natural disasters or long term emotional or abusive experiences among others has been found to impair development and learning in children in addition to causing emotional and relationship problems later in life. Adult trauma is also found to be a result of single emotional or violent incidences, or delayed trauma from childhood experiences or from an accumulation of smaller traumas. Mental trauma can also result from personal loss and family conflict and break-up among other stressful events. Practitioners in the field of mental, behavioral and social science therapy have found that not only do they require trauma assessment tools which will assess the presence of trauma within their clients or patients in order to devise appropriate therapies for recovery but that a variety of tools are requirement which account for such factors as long term exposure leading to trauma, single incident experiences, cultural factors, age, gender and language factors among many others.
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high incident rates and the eventual loss of life in many patients who experience physical trauma. In a similar way, researchers studying mental trauma have also found an increase in
incidence and the need for early intervention and treatment if possible to aid those experiencing trauma and post-traumatic stress (PTS). Childhood trauma which results from single violent or natural disasters
or long term emotional or abusive experiences among others has been found to impair development and learning in children in addition to causing emotional and relationship problems later in life.
Adult trauma is also found to be a result of single emotional or violent incidences, or delayed trauma from childhood experiences or from an accumulation of smaller traumas. Mental trauma
can also result from personal loss and family conflict and break-up among other stressful events. Practitioners in the field of mental, behavioral and social science therapy have found that not
only do they require trauma assessment tools which will assess the presence of trauma within their clients or patients in order to devise appropriate therapies for recovery but that a
variety of tools are requirement which account for such factors as long term exposure leading to trauma, single incident experiences, cultural factors, age, gender and language factors among many others.
Researcher Cecile DHuyvetter describes (physical) trauma as a "neglected disease" which is considered the "leading cause of death through the first four decades
of life". It is described as a disease by many within the health care community because it is considered to be "preventable and frequently predictable" and therefore is "subject to
the same epidemiology as disease" (DHuyvetter, 2000, p. 5). Intervention and prevention of trauma can been considered relevant to the study of trauma within the past decade as practitioners and
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