Childhood Trauma and Adverse Experience and Forensic Child Psychiatry: The Penn Center for Youth and Family Trauma Response and Recovery

Abstract

Clinical traumatologists who treat children constantly work with multiple systems and agencies that have tremendous influence on children's developmental trajectory and may either support or impede recovery by the actions that they take. While the circumstances with which these children contend are not uncommon, they are always extremely intricate and complex. The child and adolescent psychiatrist who is an expert in childhood trauma and adversity has the formidable task of providing expert opinions and recommendations to multiple systems that typically are not knowledgeable about how to support, treat, and promote the development of traumatized children.