Date: 04-06-2023
Shooting victims — but also bystanders who see or hear such violence — are at heightened risk of externalizing and internalizing disorders, post-traumatic stress, diminished social competence, school problems, and desensitization to violence |
From Juvenile Justice Information Exchange:
Just as a November 2019 school day was getting started at Saugus High near Los Angeles, a classmate who’d built a .45 caliber semiautomatic handgun from a kit shot Mia Tretta in the belly.
Now an 18-year-old senior, Tretta, whose best friend was killed next to her in the Saugus shooting, remembers trying to put on a brave face when she returned to school less than a month later.
“A lot of people think when you get shot you go to the hospital, they fix you up, you go home and you’re OK,” she said. “That’s really not the case. Trauma is a roller coaster.”
There’s the immediate physical injury and mental and emotional trauma of being shot. But also there are long-haul effects. Shooting victims — but also bystanders who see or hear such violence — are at heightened “risk of externalizing and internalizing disorders, post-traumatic stress, diminished social competence, school problems, and desensitization to violence,” according to a 2019 University of New Hampshire analysis involving 630 2- to 17-year-olds in Boston, Philadelphia and rural Tennessee. Continue reading >>>
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