I clearly remember sitting in the audience in Banff Canada several years ago, listening attentively to Dr. Bruce Perry share some of his latest approaches to helping trauma-impacted children. He showed us all a slide with three words stacked on top of each other. At the bottom was “Regulate,” next was “Relate” followed by “Reason.” […]
Violence and its Impact on Children
I have previously written on the impact of childhood adversity on adult life. Specifically, violence in the home has a huge impact on the future of a child. A recent article in USA Today cites the research and some significant conclusions on this issue. Although those who work with children have intuitively recognized for years […]
How Judges are Becoming Trauma-Informed
I spend a great deal of time discussing as a society how we can find ways to trauma inform the systems that deal with children who have been impacted by trauma. So often we label, provide treatment, discipline and even punish our children and teenagers without understanding that they may be attempting to cope with […]
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