Young and School-Aged
Children
Children
Recognition of and response to emotional cues during (0 -5 years) teaches ?
Empathy
Debriefing helps the youth learn to become more self-aware and learn new coping skills through these type of moments?
teaching moments- helps them fill in the gaps
What is it known as, when a stressful experience (such as abuse, neglect or bullied) overwhelms a child's natural ability to cope?
Trauma
What is the Impact of untreated trauma in the body?
Inability to control physical responses to stress
Chronic Illness
What does Trauma’s Impact on Healthy Physical Development look like?
•Body development can be more distressing.
•Body may serve as a trauma reminder.
•Cutting, piercing, tattooing, and maladaptive eating may be attempts to cope.
•Alcohol and substance abuse can also be ways of trying to control changing emotions and physical sensations.
•Alterations in the immune system can occur
negative body image
Trauma' impact on school age children causes them to have difficulties in sleeping, what key developmental task does it interfere with?
Interferes with the child's ability to sustain attention for learning and probleming solve
What do you open the conversation with, during debriefing?
"I Message"
Name two potentially traumatic events?
•Abuse (physical, sexual, or emotional)
•Neglect
•Effects of poverty (such as homelessness or not having enough to eat)
•Being separated from loved ones
•Bullying
•Witnessing harm to a loved one or pet (e.g., domestic or community violence)
•Natural disasters or accidents
Unpredictable parental behavior
What is the Impact of untreated trauma to the brain and how it effects thinking?
Difficulty learning and concentrating
Impaired memory
difficulty switching form one thought or activity to another
What is Trauma’s Impact on Social Development look like?
•Isolation and withdrawal
•Persistent distrust and suspiciousness of others
•Continued expectation of maltreatment
•Difficulty in perspective-taking and enlisting others as allies
•Difficulty with establishing appropriate social boundaries
Young children (0-5) tasks is to understand their behavior's impact on the world leads to?
Empowerment
After an escalating event, debrief by doing what?
Asking questions
These trauma events cause a changes in the body as well as changes in how the brain perceives and responds to the world, what is this response called?
Fight or Flight response
What is the Impact of untreated trauma on emotions?
Low Self-esteem trouble making friends
feeling unsafe trust issues
inability to regulate emotions depression
difficulty forming attachments anxiety
What does Trauma’s Impact on
Behavioral Development look like?
As a result, these adolescents may engage in:
•Reckless and risk-taking behavior or
•Become avoidant of any risk
How does trauma effect a school-aged child's concept of right or wrong?
Because youth have not been treated fairly or protected, right and wrong are often confused.
The first question in debriefing is?
What changed in the environment or room that he (then describe his behavior)?
Traumatic events at any age and stage of development can interfere with a child's developmental accomplishments, leaving what in their development?
Gaps
What is the Impact of untreated trauma on behavior?
Lack of impulse control
Fighting, aggression, running away
Substance abuse
suicide
What does Trauma’s Impact on Emotional Development look like?
•Difficulty with self-regulation
•Difficulty describing feelings/internal states
•Difficulty communicating wishes and desires
In infancy, developing a secure attachment with caregiver is critical for?
the development of Self-worth
What is the goal of the last question o debriefing?
To Build self-awareness, new coping strategies and increase problem solving
Many youth who survived trauma have learned to expect and believe the worst about themselves and about the people responsible for caring for them, in this training where did it say they carried it?
In their Invisible Suitcase
What is Trauma’s Impact on Planning for the Future?
•Sense of a foreshortened future or cannot see any kind of future for themselves
•Some feel ill-equipped to handle the future because of the life skills they’ve missed along the way.
What does Trauma’s Impact on Cognitive Development look like from our youth's behavior?
•Difficulty with regulating attention and executive functioning
•Memory impairments, test taking
•Traumatized youth have IQs 8 or more points lower than non-traumatized kids.
•70 % of JJ youth have a diagnosable learning disability