Trauma
Chronic Stress and Trauma
I listened to an interesting TED talk last week about childhood trauma and thought I would share a few highlights of it. It was by Dr. Burke Harris, a pediatrician who has written a book titled The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity. (If you would like to listen to the talk…
Read MoreOnce I was Scared
I thought this week I would write a few thoughts on a book I just came across about childhood trauma called: Once I Was Very Very Scared by Chandra Ghosh Ippen, Ph.D. and Erich Ippen, Jr. This is a picture story book that tells the story of several young animals who were scared by acute or chronic trauma…
Read MoreTrauma and Relationships
I thought this week I would give you a short summary of a chapter I just read by Bruce Perry and Christine R. Ludy—Dobson titled “The Role of Healthy Relational Interactions in Buffering the Impact of childhood trauma”. If you would like to read the entire chapter click on this link. The Power of Relationships…
Read MoreHoliday Stress
December is often a month of ‘unpredictable’ and ‘out-of-the-ordinary’ events that can be disconcerting to traumatized children. Routines get changed, we stay up later, and that is only the beginning in this “wonder” month. Often families of troubled young ones wonder “why?” Why do things that are special get ruined? Why does my child sulk…
Read MoreTrauma and Holiday stress
With the holidays upon us I thought I would share a little from an article I just read titled “stress and the holidays”. It was written by Dr. Joshua Sparrow, a child psychiatrist who practices at the Boston clinic and writes a weekly column for the New York Times. The article covered multiple topics but…
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