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Helping Traumatized Children Learn – Part 2

Posted on January 19, 2019 by Deborah Pettitt
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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Posted in Research, Trauma learning, protective factors, trauma
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Learning and Trauma

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Deborah Pettitt
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
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Posted in Research, Trauma children, learning, trauma
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Resilience

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Deborah Pettitt
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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Children’s Stories

Posted on November 10, 2018 by Deborah Pettitt
I just read an article about how stories can change how a child thinks. This process is called narrative psychology and most of the current research is focused on adult outcomes, the results are still compelling for children.  If stories can change your child’s thoughts, memories and how they live their lives, wouldn’t it be
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Posted in Parenting, Trauma anxiety, story, trauma
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Helping Children with Grief

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Deborah Pettitt
I just read a short little book about grief by the Child Trauma Academy entitled A Child’s Loss: Helping Children Exposed to Traumatic Death. You can purchase this little book from iTunes or Kindle. It was only 20 pages but it gave a lot of helpful information for caregivers and a special section at the
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Posted in Parenting, Trauma death, grief, trauma

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