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title: "Protecting Childhood: Understanding Traumatic Stress and its Impact on Children’s Mental Health"
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# Protecting Childhood: Understanding Traumatic Stress and its Impact on Children’s Mental Health

The Baker Center for Children and Families provides a brief overview of trauma that can help parents know how to support their child.

 

[Read More](https://www.bakercenter.org/trauma1)

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