Trauma-Informed Care for Children Exposed to Violence

Date

2012

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Publisher

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Abstract

Description

TIPSHEET FOR CHILD ADVOCATES: Polyvictimization refers to having experienced multiple victimizations such as sexual abuse, physical abuse, bullying, and exposure to family violence. The definition emphasizes experiencing different kinds of victimization, rather than multiple episodes of the same kind of victimization.1

Keywords

Best Practices-Evaluation, Leadership, awareness, polyvictimization

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