Trauma
Holiday Stress
December is often a month of ‘unpredictable’ and ‘out-of-the-ordinary’ events that can be disconcerting to traumatized children. Routines get changed, we stay up later, and that is only the beginning in this “wonder” month. Often families of troubled young ones wonder “why?” Why do things that are special get ruined? Why does my child sulk…
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With the holidays upon us I thought I would share a little from an article I just read titled “stress and the holidays”. It was written by Dr. Joshua Sparrow, a child psychiatrist who practices at the Boston clinic and writes a weekly column for the New York Times. The article covered multiple topics but…
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Caregivers – Part III Week 3 – This week I will concentrate on 4 of the 9 points that Dr. Perry gives us for “How can I help? I encourage you to follow the link and read all of the points, it is worth your time. A. Don’t be afraid to talk about the traumatic…
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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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