Types of Trauma
Involves physical or emotional violence by family members or caregivers.
What is Abuse?
Common way a child expresses feelings of sadness.
What is Crying?
This hormone, often called the "Stress Hormone" is released when the the body is under stress.
What is Cortisol?
Trauma can severely affect this aspect of development in children, making it difficult for kids to understand, express and regulate their emotions.
What is Emotional Development?
This type of trauma results from ignorance from caregivers or mistreatment in the infant years.
Waking up in the middle of the night with frightening dreams, and having difficulty sleeping afterward.
What is Nightmares?
Cortisol helps regulate these two things in the body: Blood sugar & Blood _____.
What is Blood Pressure?
Trauma in childhood can lead to social difficulties, such as problems with forming friendships, social withdrawals and an increased risk of peer rejection.
What is Social Development?
This kind of trauma is reflected in caregivers's or parents's personal traumas, passing it onto their kids.
Symptom in traumatized children involving feeling scared, anxious or paranoid without a clear cause.
What is Anxiety?
Chronic high levels of Cortisol can lead to this common hormonal issue in females that affects their menstrual cycle.
What is Irregular Periods?
This aspect of development can be stunted by trauma due to hormone imbalance and chronic stress, affecting height and weight.
What is Physical Development?
This type of trauma involves witnessing violence or death, leading to symptoms of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).
What is Secondary Trauma?
When children withdraw from activities with friends or family, and showing lack of interest in things they once enjoyed.
This physiological response, triggered by high cortisol, prepares the body for immediate action and is often called the "Fight or ______" response.
What is Fight or Flight?
Trauma can alter our brain structure and function, specifically in areas responsible for information, processing memory and decision-making.
What is Cognitive Development?
This type of trauma occurs when children experience prolonged exposure to secondhand stress, without being directly abused, or neglected.
What is Chronic Stress?
When children re-enact their form/theme of trauma through their actions either at school or in real-life.
What is trauma re-enactment?
Prolonged high cortisol levels can lead to various psychiatric conditions, including this disorder portrayed by feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and loss of interest in activities.
What is Depression?
Prolonged exposure to trauma can lead to long-term issues like chronic substance abuse, brain damage, and increased risk of disease in adulthood.
What is Long-term effects of Trauma?