True/False
True or False? Trauma is a very scary, upsetting, confusing, and/or life threatening event.
True. Trauma can be things like physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal abuse, or sees someone else get hurt. OR it can be when someone is in a car crash or a natural disaster.
What are coping skills?
Something that distracts you from negative thoughts, feelings, and/or actions/behaviors.
Please tell me what you would buy if you were given 1,000 dollars?
Neat!!!
What is sexual abuse?
Child sexual abuse is when someone makes a child touch their private parts or touches a child's private parts in a not-safe way.
Bonus question: What are ways you know a touch is safe and ok?
True or False? It is always easy to tell an adult about trauma.
False. Sometimes telling can be hard and upsetting.
What are some examples of coping skills?
Reading
Playing games
Deep breathing
Going for a walk
Doing art
Talking to someone you trust
Thinking about your "Safe Place"
Squeeze your muscles and relax
Where do you feel the safest/calm? And why?
Neat!
Who is sexually abused?
Sexual abuse happens to boys and girls. It can happen to kids of all ages, races, religions, and from any kind of neighborhood.
True or False? Trauma can happen to anyone.
True: Trauma can happen to girls, boys, different races, ages, etc.
What coping skills do you use?
Any answer.
What is your favorite food?
That sounds so good!
Why might a child not tell if they were sexually abused?
The abuser told them not to tell.
The abuser uses tricks to keep children from telling.
The child is afraid of getting in trouble.
Safety
They feel scared or ashamed or confused.
True or False? Kids always tell an adult right away when someone has hurt them.
True. It can be hard to know what to do, so sometimes kids don't tell an adult right away. It may take a while to figure out that they need help!
Close your eyes, take deep breaths, imagine a place that feels safe and think about what you would hear, see, smell, taste, and feel if you were there.
When you feel sad/mad, what is something that helps you? AND what is something that does not help you?
Very interesting.
True or False: Children are usually sexually abused by a stranger.
False. Kids are usually abused by someone they know.
True or False? Many children feel angry and confused after they have experienced trauma.
True. Kids can have lots of different feelings when they have had a trauma happen--angry, confused, scared, disgusted, sad, lonely, guilty, ashamed.
How can you tell if you might be getting stressed and need to use a coping skill?
Feel it in your body, tired, getting angry, etc.
What is your favorite memory and why?
Nice!
How might the child feel about the sexual abuse?
All types of feelings such as...
Confused due to sexual touching feeling good
Angry
Scared
Guilt, shame, confused, isolated etc.