Reading comprehension is an essential skill for us all. Without it life would be extremely difficult. Dealing with students who have problems with decoding and comprehending what they have read presents teachers and parents with some significant challenges. According to Nina Parish in a recent article in Edutopia there are some strategies that will help […]
PTSD Not the Only Outcome of Trauma
I have several friends in the trauma-field, a few of whom are psychiatrists. Some of them were adamantly opposed to what they felt were limited descriptions of diagnoses related to trauma in the DSM IV published in 2000 and the DSM V published in 2013. With regard to trauma diagnoses, it seems like so much […]
Childhood Trauma and General Anxiety Disorder
We have extensive research that has been replicated over and over again that Adverse Childhood Experiences have a significant impact on the emotional and physical health of adults. Part of what we are discovering in our youth today is how many are experiencing General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) which leads to hypervigilance, fear, panic attacks and […]
How We Hold Our Trauma
As the research continues concerning the impact of trauma, we are realizing more and more how much trauma can have effect to our bodies. For many years we believed that traumatic events were something to get over and we thought it could be done through a mental process. The recent research helped us to understand […]
Promoting Trauma Awareness in our Political World
What action can take to change the ways we care for children and adults with unresolved trauma issues while also focusing on preventing traumas from occurring in the first place? Many of us realize that the systems we have in place to care for children and families are woefully unprepared to consider how trauma plays […]
The Impact of Lack of Civility to our Youth
We have recently seen some rather amazing examples of lack of civility in our politics and in many other spheres of our culture. The news is full of verbal abuse, physical violence, corruption and many other forms of disrespect for our laws and our humanity. As I listen to these violations, I become increasingly concerned […]
How Do Our Students Really Feel About High School?
For those of us who have journeyed with our kids through high school, we realize that many of the emotions they experienced were more negative than positive. There may have been many different reasons including not enjoying the schoolwork or the problems with their friends or teachers. Often parents do not know what to say […]
The Reality of Political Trauma
In the midst of the trauma of impeachment proceedings in Washington DC, the various political debates and the barrage of news items about candidates and their degrees of honesty, integrity and abilities to maintain our democracy, many of us may be actually experiencing what can be termed “political trauma.” If you Google the term, you […]
Recognizing Adverse Childhood Experiences in Your Child
I have written consistently on the topic of the impact of Adverse Child Experiences. This is a body of research originating in California where documented ACES have had impact to the general physical and emotional health of adults. The research is quite compelling and is shaping most of the trauma-informed movement in our country. Often […]
Walking Track Stations for Brain Regulation
In our schools at Lakeside we are very intentional to give our students the tools they need to deal with their brain dysregulation. Neuroscience research is clear that somatosensory types of interventions help our brains become more cognitive and calm so that we can have better judgement, use good logic, control our behavior and are […]
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