Trauma
Service Associates (TSA) Recognized the Wide-Spread
Problem of Psychological Trauma and has been addressing
it through it's Trauma Services Associates Treatment
and Training Institute. Our programs are a national
public and professional education effort that is based
on twenty years of clinical research and aims to reduce
the personal and economic cost of traumatic stress
through early recognition and treatment. With the
recent awareness of fear and anger concerning tragedy
in our lives – The Threat of Terrorism, Trauma
in Youth and Children (violence in our schools), Violence
and Despair in the Workplace – we are consumed
with the thought of our personal safety.
The essence of Trauma is the loss of faith that there is order and continuity in life. From a mental-health perspective trauma assumes a different meaning referring to a [painful, emotional experience or shock often producing a lasting effect. Traumatic events can involve a life-threatening severe physical injury, loss of a primary care-taker, or loss of ones community or social environment. Trauma also can pose a threat to an individual sense of psychological control or physical or psychological integrity |
