Inter-professional Practice and Childhood Trauma

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Introduction:
Inter-professional practice is found to be one of the most significant self-reflective
implementation. The practice necessitates the teaching, exercise, and skilled growth (Van der
Kolk, 2017). Childhood trauma is one of the increasing concerns in the present world,
causing difficulty for majority of the youngsters in their early duration of childhood.
Childhood trauma is found to be occurring in today’s children with experience of witnessing
difficult or traumatic situation (Baumeister et al., 2016). These experiences are the reason
which pushes these children concerning misbehaviour, violence, lack of attention towards
any activity, nervousness, sadness and also they face trouble in interacting socially and peer
involvement (Isvoranu et al., 2016). Thus it becomes necessary to make availability of the
inter-professional valuations to these affected children for providing appropriate help to them
in order to overcome their trauma condition. the assignment highlights the childhood trauma,
its effect and the role of nursing interventions in order to help the effected population.
Discussion:
According to Marusak et al., (2015), the children at their early childhood face several
different types of severe and problematic experiences. These experiences involve physical as
well as mental exploitation, fierceness at their home or workplace, social abuse and bullying,
discrimination (Yu et al., 2019). The experience of trauma at the early childhood age is found
to effect greatly the mental health of the children and it is also observed that these traumatic
effects are said to be residing at the mind of the children for extended time duration which
turns up to be harming the children slowly and mentally (Veling et al., 2016). Various
research has showed that, treatment of these condition on time is necessary and if not treated
on time, the condition might turn out to be life-long (van Nierop et al., 2015). These type of
conditions may force the children ahead concerning immense destruction by harming and

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negatively manipulating their thinking capability and mind-set, health and societal lifestyle
(Bailey et al., 2018). Conditions like childhood trauma needs to be asses at very early stage as
the severity of the condition grows with the growing age of the child and it may lead to a life
risking scenario for the children. Thus, inter-professional practice has been selected to be one
of the effective measures for providing recovery to such trauma suffering children, as they
use a vast range of strategies and practices to provide care and treatment.
Inter-professional practice and childhood trauma:
The World Health Organization proposed a framework called the inter-professional
practice which guides the health care services regarding the need of a well-planned structure
in between the health care providers (Olsen & Warring, 2018). The inter-professional practice
was developed in order to help the nursing staff and the health care professionals. The aim of
the practice was to deliver proper health care and treatment to the patients (Shamaskin-
Garroway et al., 2017). The inter-professional practice is one of the helpful practice in the
field of childhood trauma as it focuses towards delivering assistance to the trauma effected
children in order to help them develop and improve from their condition of trauma and
mental disturbance (Woodside-Jiron et al., 2019). It enhances team working qualities and
develops understanding among the multidisciplinary team members. It helps to understand
the child’s needs in trauma condition and also to provide a better developed care and
recovery process for the child. childhood trauma is a condition occurred due to some
disturbing incidence occurred during early childhood and it puts a greater impact on the
mental state of the child. it is necessary to handle such children with proper understand and
detailed care, thus it makes inter-professional practice as an essential process to implement in
the health care services (Domac, Anderson, O’Reilly & Smith, 2015).