Fact sheets

Understanding the possible impacts of complex trauma including childhood trauma and abuse on the body, mind and emotions.

People who experience complex trauma especially from childhood develop a range of coping strategies which are protective at first but often less protective over time.

This fact sheet explains the stress response, which is our normal survival - fight, flight and freeze response.

Explaining the stress response, which is our normal survival – fight, flight and freeze response.

Information about complex trauma and how it is different to the trauma of a single incident.

Examining the different ways people can experience childhood trauma and abuse.

What trauma means, how common it is and how it can affect people. This fact sheet also explores the different groups who experience trauma more frequently than others.

These fact sheets have been produced in AUSLAN for the Australian deaf community.

Outlining issues of intergenerational trauma, transgenerational and collective trauma.

This fact sheet explains about the experience of trauma, the different types of trauma and why we need to understand about their differences.