Posts by Deborah Pettitt
Helping Traumatized Children Learn – Part 2
In the second chapter of “Helping Traumatized Children Learn”, the author discusses resiliency and protective factors. Three Protective factors Child-development psychologists Masten and Coatsworth found 3 common factors for why some children develop competence even under adverse conditions, such as exposure to domestic violence, abuse, homelessness and community violence. These three factors common to competent…
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Marriage Relationships need work “We don’t need couple’s therapy. We have a good marriage relationship.” The general feeling in the United States is that couple’s therapy is for couples with problems, when in reality, prevention is much more effective than intervention. Research from the Gottman Institute found that couples wait an average of six years…
Read MoreLearning and Trauma
Helping Traumatized Children Learn I just finished reading a chapter of the book titled “Helping Traumatized Children Learn”. This report was a collaboration with Harvard Law School and The Task Force on Children Affected by Domestic Violence. The basics of the book are: • Chapter 1 – The impact of trauma on learning • Chapter…
Read MoreResilience
I just finished reading a great article on resilience along with viewing 3 videos (2 from Dr. Dan Siegel) about the subject. First let’s start with what is resilience? Resilience – What is it? Resilience can be defined as the ability to recover quickly from difficulties while maintaining optimism for the future. When adults or…
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I just finished reading an article titled “A Review of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy” by Frewin and Gardiner from Massey University in New Zealand. The entire article was quite interesting but I thought I would summarize just a small part of the article dealing with EAP (Equine Assisted Psychotherapy) directed at youth. We have seen amazing…
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