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What Is Trauma Affect School Success?

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SD appears to be in the Precontemplation stages of change where he is not ready to make the change. He is aware of the consequences of the negative behavior. However, I believe that he lacks self-efficacy (doubting his abilities), which derails his effort to try. The question that comes to mind is how traumatic was his experience in immigrating from Haiti to New York city, having to acclimate to the school system here in New York, experiencing culture shock and having a speech and language impediment. Is trauma impacting his school success? This has to be researched further but in the meantime the focus of the intervention is to continue to motivate SD by pointing out his strengths, allowing him to set goals and working with him to

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