The traumatic event is persistently re-experienced in one (or more) of the following ways:

(1) recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the event, including images,

thoughts, or perceptions. NOTE: In young children, repetitive play may occur in

which themes or aspects of the trauma are expressed.

(2) recurrent distressing dreams of the event. NOTE: In children, there may be

frightening dreams without recognizable content.

(3) acting or feeling as if the traumatic event recurring (includes a sense of reliving

the experience, illusions, hallucinations, and dissociative flashback episodes, including those that occur on awakening or when intoxicated). NOTE: In young children, trauma-specific reenactment may occur.

(4) intense psychological distress at exposure to internal or external cues that

symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event.

(5) physiological reactivity on exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize

or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event.

Persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma and numbing of general responsiveness (not present before the trauma), a

that lead to angry explosions.

* Assist child in making a list of positive attributes and talk about how this list

each time. This therapy helps the child realize that the trauma is a memory and

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