Forms of Abuse
Negative experiences in childhood such as medical, natural disasters, and family dysfunction (divorce, drug use, jail/prison, abuse), that affect a child's ability to learn.
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?
Flashbacks, nightmares, and/or uncontrollable thoughts about a past traumatic event.
What is PTSD?
Beneficial stress, usually associated with a feeling of fulfillment and achievement rather than anxiety.
What is Eustress?
Policies and Procedures students and staff are to follow and adhere to when dealing with children and families.
What is Common Practice?
Schools that have developed a shared language to define, normalize, and address the impact of trauma on student learning.
What is Trauma Informed?
Intentional acts causing injury or trauma by way of bodily contact.
What is Physical Abuse?
This type of trauma occurs when an individual intentionally employs violence or aggression, in the home to family members.
What is Domestic Violence?
Short lived stress that is intense but usually children are able to overcome.
What is Tolerable Stress?
Policies and Procedures that take into account what all students need to succeed, and enables schools to help break rather than perpetuate the cycle of trauma.
What is Transformative Practice?
The process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.
What is Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)?
This form of abuse usually takes place between a child and an adult, in which the child is used for the sexual stimulation of the perpetrator.
What is Sexual Abuse?
The type of traumatic experiences occurring towards children between 1 and 6 years old.
What is Early Childhood Trauma?
Stress that is a result of prolonged exposure to intense adverse experiences.
What is Toxic Stress?
A state of being with others that arises when a child's needs are met and the child has the freedom and ability to meaningfully pursue their goals and ways of life in a supportive, equitable setting now and into the future.
What is Child Well-Being?
The Ability to manage one's emotions and behavior in accordance with the demands of the situation. It includes being able to resist highly emotional reacting to upsetting stimuli, to calm yourself down when you get upset, to adjust to a change in expectations, and to handle frustration without an outburst.
What is Self-Regulation?
Failure on the part of the parents or guardians to provide necessary care for the children they are responsible for.
What is Neglect?
Children's exposure to multiple traumatic events, along with long-term effects of this exposure.
What is Complex Trauma?
The physical, mental and emotional human response to a particular stimulus or stressor that usually causes an adaptation or coping-response that helps the body prepare for challenging situations.
What is Stress?
A belief that, through collective actions, a group of people can influence student outcomes and increase achievement.
What is Collective Efficacy?
Helping to build and reinforce neural pathways that support resilience, good decision-making, positive relationships and lifelong learning.
What is "Hope"? Schools play a key role
The non-accidental verbal or symbolic acts by the parents or guardians which result in or could result in significant psychological harm to the child.
What is Emotional Abuse?
Substance abuse by family members, distressed separation or divorce, mentally ill or suicidal household member, witnessing violence towards family members.
What is Trauma in the Household Environment?
Stress that occurs when children or adolescents are exposed to traumatic events or situations that result in an inability to cope with their experiences.
What is Childhood Trauma Syndrome?
Structured professional development that results in changes in educator practices and improvements in student learning outcomes.
What is Professional Learning?
Stress and Trauma impact children's ability to regulate their emotions, thoughts and behaviors. (This is true for adults too:) High levels of stress can overwhelm us. An approach that focuses on skill-building so children can learn to manage stress in healthy ways and still have accountability at school.
What is Trauma-Engaged Practice?