Parenting Tips: Attention Deficit Disorder
Sometimes, going through a traumatic event can cause real attention problems. But trauma and ADHD can be confused in diagnosis because the symptoms of trauma mimic those of ADHD.
Parenting Tips: Aggression and Sexually Abusive Behavior
Aggressive and sexualized behaviors require on-going professional intervention. Parents can use techniques at home which support the therapy, but they cannot provide the therapy themselves nor can they create the desired change in the child without professional support. As well, the parents need the help of the therapist to learn how to deal with their own feelings about these types of negatives behaviors and to learn how to deal with the high level of stress that is the result of living with a violent or sexually intrusive child.
Building Trauma-Informed Systems and Policy Issues
The following resources help administrators and managers implement changes in policies and procedures and work collaboratively with other service providers to make systems more trauma-informed.
Children with Early Childhood Trauma Do Not ‘Just Get Over It’
If a baby is repeatedly scared and emotionally overwhelmed and they do not get their survival brain soothed, so they can cope, they begin to develop a brain and bodily system which is on hyper alert and the World seems to be a scary place.
Creating Trauma-Informed Classrooms
In our work, we often refer to at-risk children as those who have come from “hard places.” Not only are there changes in the brain and the biology, there are also tragic changes in the belief systems of these children.
Helping Adopted and Foster Children Navigate Their Early Trauma
Children in foster care and those available for adoption--either domestically or internationally-- have suffered the loss of their original parents. It is also likely that they have suffered many other hardships and traumas.