Brain and violence

By Deborah Pettitt | August 5, 2016

Overcoming Trauma's Hurts

Attached is a video from Bruce Perry’s youtube channel. It’s sobering to see how exposure to violence affects an infants developing brain. I see many children who were adopted fairly young. (before age two) Many parents assume that they were too young to remember the family trauma. Unfortunately the brain was at peak development and has become set towards hyperarousal or dissociative responses . It will take considerable guided effort to bring about change.

Posted in Research, Trauma

About Deborah Pettitt

am the Director of Family Christian Counseling Center of Phoenix and have extensive training and experience in treating children. I am one of a few Registered Play Therapist Supervisors in the state of Arizona. with training in Bruce Perry’s neurosequential model. I have taught Child and Adolescent Counseling at Fuller seminary. My specialty is helping children recover from trauma, abuse and neglect. I am skilled in treating attachment issues. Parents are always an integral part of this process.