QUESTION DESCRIPTION

Research indicates that trauma can have a lasting impact on children and adolescents as well as an immediate impact. As counselors, it is important to have a good understating of the long- and short-term impact of trauma as well as common risk factors.

Write a 750-1,000-word paper about the long-term effect of trauma on children and adolescents. Include the following in your paper:

1. A discussion about the long-term effect of trauma
2. Issues related to self-esteem, future relationships, scholastic achievement, substance use, self-harm/suicide, and psychopathology (during childhood and throughout adulthood
3. Common risk factors
4. A minimum of five scholarly resources

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