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.” […]
Preventing an Alarming Event from Being Encoded As a Trauma
In my last blog I invited you to consider that not every dramatic incident is necessarily trauma. As was noted, we can prevent a dramatic event from becoming a traumatic one through trauma-sensitive responses in the moments before, during and after an event. Part of understanding the nature of trauma is to appreciate that […]
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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