Examining the relationship between childhood traumatic experience level and awareness towards child abuse amongst secondary education teachers

Abuse is considered as one of the most important trauma of childhood. Besides, school is the alternative location for children to home since it is the second place that they spend time in. Therefore, teachers have the advantage to realize behavioral changes of children for children are in constant relationship with teachers. Hence it can be assumed that teachers are in position to identify abuse of children. Some of the reserach indicate that most of the teachers are not aware of standart child outcry processes. However they totally agree in the process of mandatory decleration of cases. Present study aims to investigate childhood trauma levels of teachers and its realtion with the awareness of childhood abuse towards their students. Keywords: Trauma, Childhood Trauma, Child Abuse, Teachers