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After reading through the article, I saw one topic area that could use more information. There are also some sentences that could be reworded differently to help convey their message better.

For the week 4 exercise, I was unsure whether to add in the citation directly into the article or to insert my citation into the sandbox. Because of this, I accidentally added in my sentence and citation for that sentence into the article under the Trauma section. This is the sentence I added: "It has also been seen that girls who suffered abuse during their childhood had higher reported dissociation scores than did boys who reported dissociation during their childhood." The citation for this is "UAB Libraries EZProxy Login". login.ezproxy3.lhl.uab.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-22. and is listed under number 26.

Trauma Section: "Child abuse, especially chronic abuse starting at early ages, has been related to high levels of dissociative symptoms in a clinical sample, including amnesia for abuse memories. It has also been seen that girls who suffered abuse during their childhood had higher reported dissociation scores than did boys who reported dissociation during their childhood. A non-clinical sample of adult women linked increased levels of dissociation to sexual abuse by a significantly older person prior to age 15, and dissociation has also been correlated with a history of childhood physical and sexual abuse. When sexual abuse is examined, the levels of dissociation were found to increase along with the severity of the abuse."

The trauma section talks about how women and children are affected by having dissociation but not how men and boys are affect. I would like to incorporate a few sentences on how men are affected in comparison to women and how boys are affected as well.

Main Section: "Dissociation is a wide array of experiences that range(improved word choice) from mild detachment of a persons(improved word choice) immediate surroundings to more severe detachment from physical and emotional experiences. The major characteristic of all dissociative phenomena involves a detachment from reality, rather than a loss of reality as in psychosis."

Treatment Section: (added a treatment section into the article)

When receiving treatment, patients are assessed to discover their level of functioning. Some patients might be higher functioning than others. This is taken into account when creating a patients potential treatment targets. To start off treatment, time is dedicated to increasing a patient’s mental level and adaptive actions in order to gain a balance in both their mental and behavioral action. Once this is achieved, the next goal is to work on removing or minimizing the phobia made by traumatic memories, which is causing the patient to dissociate. The final step of treatment includes helping patients work through their grief in order to move forward and be able to engage in their own lives. This is done with the use of new coping skills attained through treatment. (citation for this section: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=PPpxN70YLQEC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=dissociation+treatment&ots=8uYRj1udU1&sig=Fg5fvA0pluWgTOw4d-4hJppRcuU#v=onepage&q=treatment&f=false )