What is a Traumatic Event?

Anyone can be impacted by a traumatic event. Trauma can impact individually or collectively.
Trauma is any extremely distressing experience that causes severe emotional shock that can have long-lasting psychological effects.

Traumatic events include:

• Assault
• Homicide
• Suicide
• Work-related accidents
• Burglary
• Fire
• Sudden death
• Exposure of illegal activities
• Layoffs
• Mergers
• Takeovers
• Public scandal
• Natural disasters
• Acts of terrorism
• Epidemics