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title: Learn More About Trauma
description: "**Summary:** This resource provides a quick and easy overview of how children experience trauma and what parents can do to minimize and address traumatic events.   **Application: **This can be used to help parents understand what to expect when their child…"
url: "https://bridges4mentalhealth.org/hub/adoption-competence/learn-more-about-trauma/"
updated: "2026-07-31"
category: Adoption Competent Mental Health
tags:
  - Audience
  - Families
---

# Learn More About Trauma

**Summary:** This resource provides a quick and easy overview of how children experience trauma and what parents can do to minimize and address traumatic events.

 

**Application: **This can be used to help parents understand what to expect when their child begins trauma treatment.

 

**PDF: [Learn More About Trauma](https://possible-scent.flywheelsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Baker.Learn-More-About-Trauma.pdf)**

 

**Source: **Baker Center for Children and Families

 

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