Trauma in Adolescents and Adults

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Companion Slides

Risk-taking, dissociation, relationship difficulties — age-specific trauma responses.

Key Concepts

  • Adolescent-specific: risk-taking, substance use, self-harm
  • Adult-specific: relationship difficulties, chronic illness, workaholism
  • Dissociation: the mind's way of 'leaving' when the body can't
  • Emotional dysregulation across the lifespan
  • Complex trauma: layered, relational, often invisible

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Module 2: How Trauma Shows Up

Recognizing trauma responses in behavior, across ages, in the body, and through a cultural lens.

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