Should Childhood Trauma Be Treated as a Mental Health Crisis?

By Allison Arkfeld on November 19, 2018

Simple answer: YES. Childhood trauma is pervasive. And I see it everyday working in substance abuse treatment. As Gabor Mate once said (I may be slightly paraphrasing…), “Not every traumatized person becomes an addict, but every addict was a traumatize person”.

Excited to see where awareness and the new bill- SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act leads the community, the field of mental health, and trauma treatment in general.

NPR overviews the question and possible answers….

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/11/09/666143092/should-childhood-trauma-be-treated-as-a-public-health-crisis?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202909&fbclid=IwAR3zY54-zZSQlAJmHqLve56KZi6iQ2huZu-v0VuHDYhGECnWIrMiK-v72hg

Published in Blog and PTSD

Allison Arkfeld

BS, MA Passionate about executive functioning disorder treatment and healing, particularly for individuals suffering from overlapping symptoms of trauma and ADHD. I am dedicating my life and career toward expanding the cultural and clinical understanding of individuals labelled (by the DSM) as having both PSTD and ADHD. My provisional telos is to find best practices for healing, contingent upon progressive states (of the individual and in the field of psychology) that emerge.