The following information on Ross Rosenberg’s Trauma Continuum was taken from his Codependency Cure Seminar, which is available at Advanced Clinical Trainers website.

LEVELS OF TRAUMA

• DSM does account for levels of trauma
• Not all are diagnosable
• All trauma has impact
• Good, bad and life-altering
• Trauma that cannot be processed and organized is relegated to our limbic system
• The brain’s protection vault
• The brain’s circuit breaker
• The more profound the trauma, the deeper it is buried
• The more difficult to access
• The more profound the psychological disturbance

THE CONTINUUM (LEVELS) OF TRAUMA

• Trauma should be organized according to levels of severity
• Mild to most severe
• Mild to moderate is consciously processed
• Moderate to severe require defense mechanisms
• Biological phenomena
• Considering there are levels of trauma
• And trauma treatment works
• A continuum should represent the trauma resolution