Ohio Expands Efforts to Address Childhood Trauma [PublicNewsService.org]

Samantha Sangenito 8/26/1412:00 PM

Children who have been traumatized can face a lifetime of behavioral, mental and physical health problems, and there are efforts in Ohio to better help these children recover.

Traumatic experiences include physical abuse, exposure to addiction and parental separation.

Dr. Dr. Mark Hurst, medical director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, says exposure to trauma is widespread, and especially common among children in the child welfare system.

[For more of this story go to http://www.publicnewsservice.o...hood-trauma/a41282-1]

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