SAMHSA Trauma and Violence

Author: SAMSHA Publisher: https://www.samhsa.gov/trauma-violence Publish Date: N/A Review Date: 2023-11-18 Status:🌐

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Annotations

• SAMHSA describes individual trauma as an event or circumstance resulting in:

  • physical harm
  • emotional harm
  • and/or life-threatening harm

  The event or circumstance has lasting adverse effects on the individual’s:

  • mental health
  • physical health
  • emotional health
  • social well-being
  • and/or spiritual well-being

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Notes

• By the 2000s, the concept of trauma in psychiatry had expanded to include subjective harm