I want to do what I can to help children in low-income and poverish communities grow to live the life they deserve. I was always taught by my father who grew up in less wealthy communities, that everything you are handed in life is an opportunity to either stay down or use it as a rope to accomplish higher and better things.
I did some research on questions I gathered about the issue of children living in poverty. I found a peer-reviewed article on the concept of PTSD vs Complex PTSD in children in. low-income areas.
Summary: In this research journal, they discuss the differences between PTSD and CPTSD in relation to people in low-income areas. They concluded that CPTSD, also known at Complex PTSD, is an additional symptom due to “repeated trauma exposure” which makes it more common for those who live within the low-income area and the population that gave them PTSD. The study is formatted with 23 dichotomized survey items representative of the symptoms tested amongst 197 trauma-exposed participants; the study was made to address urban, racially, and ethnically diverse people.
Citation:
Sraiya, Tanya C., et al. “Social-Emotional Profiles of PTSD, Complex PTSD, and Borderline
Personality Disorder Among Racially and Ethically Diverse Young Adults: A Latent Class
Analysis” Journal of Traumatic Stress, vol. 34, no. 1, 2020, pp. 56-68.
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