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Why is it important to complete a child abuse assessment at the onset of mental health counselling and assess for it throughout the course of treatment? so why is it important? child abuse has a lot of repercussions later in life.
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Child abuse increases the risk of mental health issues.
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Increases risk of mental health issues.
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It also increases the risk of mental health issues.
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Of physical health issues, especially things like autoimmune conditions.
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But we're looking at mental health counselling specifically here.
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So if you find out that your patient has a history of child abuse, that puts them at much greater risk.
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And it also impacts what kind of issues they might have.
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So it can cause particular issues like ptsd or c ptsd.
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So c ptsd is called complex ptsd.
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It's not on the dsm, but it is on the icd, which is used in.
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Internationally, and it's ptsd with the additional issue of kind of a lack of sense of self, the kind of things you would expect from somebody who did not get to develop in a healthy environment...