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Trudy's Triumph: A Narrative Life History Of An Adolescent Survivor Of Abusive Head Trauma, Crystal G. Ledford
Trudy's Triumph: A Narrative Life History Of An Adolescent Survivor Of Abusive Head Trauma, Crystal G. Ledford
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The purpose of this narrative study was to describe the life history of an adolescent survivor of an abusive head trauma in the Southeastern United States. Abusive head trauma is a form of inflicted brain injury, often occurring because of violence in the form of shaking or impact to the head of an infant under the age of two years old (Chevignard & Lind, 2014). Life history is defined as a first-hand account to convey understanding of a life. The primary participant was a 19-year-old, Caucasian female survivor of an abusive head trauma that occurred when she was five months …