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Child’s Trauma articles

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A large percentage of children are exposed to a traumatic event at least once in their childhood. Such events could include the death of a family member or friend, abuse, illness, displacement from a home, violence, or natural disaster. Other less-obvious traumatic events could include moments of intense emotional, social, or physical stress that look minor to onlookers but have deep-seated and lasting impacts on how the child perceives the world, their place in it, and how they relate to others. Many times, children don’t have the vocabulary to describe their experiences or feelings about them. Sometimes children find their own healthy ways to work through their trauma, but others will find it harder to cope. Things to watch for in a child include withdrawal; change in eating, sleeping, social and other habits; phobias; and obsessive behaviors or worries. Professional help is often the most effective way of aiding a child who has experienced trauma, but there is a plethora of strategies for helping their progress.

If you or someone you know is in immediate need of support, please seek professional help. If you are in crisis, here are some immediate free resources.

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Structural Racism Is Taking a Toll on Children’s Mental Health

Racism and social inequality don’t just affect adults. Here's why they have a profound impact on the mental health of children of color.

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‘It Never Stops Shaping You’: The Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse – And How to Survive It

Child sexual abuse is frighteningly common and hugely damaging. But a new project is collecting survivors’ stories – and revealing what is needed to heal

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Childhood Trauma Leads to Lifelong Chronic Illness—so Why Isn’t the Medical Community Helping Patients?

When physicians help patients come to the profound revelation that childhood adversity plays a role in the chronic illnesses they face now, they help them to heal physically and emotionally at last.

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The New Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis has fallen on hard times. Freud’s gender theories are trashed for their sexism, and his original instinct theories are regarded skeptically.

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The Drama of the Gifted Child

The wisdom that Alice Miller shares with us in her famous book, The Drama of the Gifted Child, is something that every therapist who works with children revisits more often than we would like.

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Teaching Children to Calm Themselves

When Luke gets angry, he tries to remember to look at his bracelet. It reminds him of what he can do to calm himself: stop, take a deep breath, count to four, give yourself a hug and, if necessary, ask an adult for help.

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Fear of Abandonment Issues and Therapy Treatment

Healthy human development requires needs for physical and emotional care to be met. Unmet needs can result in feelings of abandonment.

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Self-Care Skills and Strategies for Foster Parents

Helping children heal from abuse or neglect is rewarding but hard. Like the children in their care, kin and foster parents need to find ways of experiencing strong feelings without becoming overwhelmed.

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How Racism in Early Life Can Affect Long-Term Health

Excessive adversity activates biological reactions that can lead to lifelong problems in physical and mental well-being

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5 Ways Trauma And Poverty Affect Childhood Development

Although children are born ready to learn and grow, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that occur in youth resulting in toxic stress. And that toxic stress from ACEs can literally change how the brain develops and affect how the body responds to stress as one ages.

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