Posts by Deborah Pettitt
Help for Trauma Caregivers – Part II
Help for Trauma Caregivers – Part II I will continue this week summarizing a presentation by Bruce Perry (the entire presentation can be found here) titled “Helping Children with Trauma – A brief overview for Caregivers“. As I said last week it is important to remember that this guide by Perry is intended to inform…
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Help for Trauma Caregivers I was reading a presentation by Bruce Perry (the entire presentation can be found here) titled Helping Children with Trauma – A brief overview for Caregivers. It was such a great presentation that I thought I would give you a short summary for my blog this week, thanks to all the…
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Trauma Counseling and EMDR I thought this week we would look at trauma counseling by reviewing the book entitled “EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma” by Francine Shapiro, and Margot Silk Forrest. This book was originally written in 1997 and updated twice (the last time in 2016). The Introduction to the…
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Somatic Experience Training The Center would like to congratulate Kris Teets upon the completion of stage 1 and 2 of Somatic Experience Training. We thought this week we would give you a short introduction to what this training is all about. Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is a body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and other…
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Family TIME I was thinking about family time spent with your children and how crucial it can be in today’s world. When asked children say the number one thing they want most from their parents is time. Most of us are caught up in a hectic whirlwind of activities which start on Monday morning, end…
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