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Community Information Session: Parent Perspectives for Coping with Medical Trauma

Individuals with Spina Bifida and their caregivers may experience symptoms of medical traumatic stress at some point across the lifespan. Traumatic stress and associated emotional reactions following a medical event can have effects that seriously impair an individual’s functioning and can impact how they manage their medical care moving forward.

In this Community Information Session, presenters briefly reviewed key concepts in medical traumatic stress and offered practical resources and strategies for managing medical traumatic stress symptoms.

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