Trauma Embedded Evidence Assignment

TRAUMA INFORMED ASSESSMENT
Identifying information
My client’s name is: John, he is a 53 year old African American male, who was convicted for two set fire, that he did not do. In 1981, John was arrested at age 16, during a disturbance in the neighborhood. John was tried as an adult and sentenced to four years plus 30 years in the state penitentiary for a fire he knew nothing about. In 1981, a fire broke out in a building, 4 people died of carbon monoxide asphyxiation and smoke inhalation. However, it was later discover that members of a motorcycle gang were the ones who set the fire, in a revenge attempt to kill a gang member and drug dealing tenant who sold the gang vitamin B-12 instead of the cocaine they wanted.
John has a thirty six

John’s youth was robbed by the criminal justices system. John was allegedly beaten false confessions out of him by the white officers in the questioning room for 10 hours. For any juvenile case, the Department policy required that police should reach a parent or guardian before questioning a juvenile suspect or youth officer to sit in on the interrogation room, however none of these people were around when John was questioned and beaten(police brutality and politics). The white officer grabbed John’s privates and inflicted excruciating pain as well as him slapping his face, repeatedly; all while being chained to the

In 1980, his Aunt Pat was in a nursing home and the children lived alone without an adult. In 1981 she died. According to Steele and Malchiodi, when primary relationship is disrupted by traumatic events, children and adolescents are put at risk for a variety of symptoms behaviors, and response (p.137). Aunt Pat was a primary relationship; her death was a traumatic event, which disrupted John and his siblings’ lives. This traumatic event affected their lives by disrupting the other decisions that might have made and putting them at risk for making worse