This article is excerpted and reprinted by permission of the publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, from the book "Nurturing Children and Families: Building on the Legacy of T. Berry Brazelton", edited by Barry M. Lester and Joshua D. Sparrow. In the first excerpt, Alicia F. Lieberman and William W. Harris explore the impact of violence and describe a treatment approach to the trauma of domestic abuse. In the second excerpt, Joy D. Osofsky and Howard J. Osofsky discuss traumatic exposure to natural disasters and share their work with young children and their families in New Orleans, Louisiana, following Hurricane Katrina.