Complex Trauma Case Study
The following court case against Compton Unified School District shares that there is trauma/complex trauma that has been affecting students who are from “high poverty neighborhoods”. Students who experience “violence and loss” are likely to have trauma. Students who are exposed multiple events of “violence and loss” experience complex trauma. to the point where they can no longer cope with their disability in order reach their fullest academic potential. Trauma is similar to PTSD because students cannot focus alongside their peers when they have been a part of a horrific event. Within the text, Peter was shown as an ideal student who experienced complex trauma, due to the fact that he had been a victim of both sexual and physical trauma in