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Karen Appleyard Carmody1, Meghan E Shanahan2
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA; Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA; UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, Duke North Pavilion Box 102505, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
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Childhood trauma is a critical public health issue with cascading deleterious developmental and clinical outcomes. This study provides definitions of related terms and provides an overview of the prevalence and burden of trauma and its identified root causes. Additionally, it reviews theoretical frameworks used to guide the study of prevention of childhood trauma, summarizes extant literature on trauma prevention efforts, and describes specific examples of empirically-based prevention models grounded in these frameworks. The article concludes with applications for psychiatrists in the field.
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