Good read “I believe that to truly help both children and families, CPS needs to address the parents’ trauma and offer effective, evidence-based psychological help instead of the same solutions they pushed on me. We need a supportive community that uses all resources to work together and to help parents and children stuck in these systems to better understand themselves and how trauma has affected them to the core. And as a survivor, I need support instead of the backlash that I have faced. I am also working at the national level as a local liaison for the National Trauma Campaign, which lobbies national leaders to devote more resources to and incorporate trauma-informed practices into our legal, health care, social service, and educational systems. When we have a thorough understanding of child development, we can help at-risk kids, youth, and their families to develop their natural coping skills, become resilient and overcome their own personal tragedies.”
Childhood Trauma Is Not a Mental Illness
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My childhood was stolen by systems focused on labeling and medicating me instead of healing the effects of abuse and neglect.Interesting Read “Risk to an individual’s mental health begins in utero and continues throughout their lifespan (Pearson et al, 2013). It can be particularly heightened at times of developmental change, including the transition from infant to preschool, preschool to school-age child, child to adult, and working-age adult to retiree. Having a negative experience during the perinatal period (from conception to one year old) can have a long-lasting impact on psychological wellbeing, affecting both physical and cognitive development into adulthood (McDaid et al, 2019). This provides a strong case for investing in promoting positive mental wellbeing in the early years to reduce the risk of lifelong mental health problems and their impact on an individual, generational and societal level. Early intervention is considered key for the development of resilience and coping strategies in later life. However, there remains a limited number of evidence-based platforms that can scale to universal use outside of specialist services, such as social care or children and young people’s mental health services (CYPMHS).”
Creating a digital programme to support children’s emotional wellbeing
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Abstract A collaborative project created a character-based digital programme to support early ye...
Interesting “Trauma and trauma recovery look different for everyone, but generally, there’s a deep, hardened core and a bunch of squishy stuff, all held together by a peel juuuust thick enough to keep us composed unless something comes along to smash us.
A lot of times, we think the “pit” is in the past, and the “problem” is all the squishy green goop, but I believe so deeply that care for the green goop is only palliative: it provides some comfort but not healing.”
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Trauma and trauma recovery look different for everyone, but generally, there's a deep hardened core and a bunch of squishy stuff, all held together...Interesting read
Good Read “Traumatic reactions disconnect us from the parts of ourselves that are supposed to take the lead in creating our lives. They disconnect us from our unbreakable core – the beautiful, universal, essential part of each of us. They separate us from our wisest, instinctual higher self, and from our worth, our purpose and our sense of belonging. They detach us from our sense of identity; from our under-standing of who we are and why we’re here. They uncouple us from our body and from the much- needed sense of presence and grounding that our body provides. They also disconnect us from our social self and our understanding of who we are in relation to other people. Our entire being can feel fragile, dispersed and out of reach.”
Brene Brown talked about vulnerability. Now it’s time to talk about trauma
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Brene Brown made talking about vulnerability a vital part of our lives. Now Dr Sarah Woodhouse is going to do the same for trauma. In this edited extract from her book You’re Not Broken, she explore...
Interesting read “Professor Siobhan O'Neill unveils 20 key recommendations for Northern Ireland's mental health recovery plan.Trauma is an experience or event that causes distress because it threatens life or personal integrity, overwhelms our ability to cope, and causes feelings of helplessness.
Trauma creates biological dysregulation (the fight, flight or freeze response) and in the long term dysregulation can be harmful to mental health. Emotional regulation occurs in a context of physical and psychological safety.
Trauma-informed practice therefore prioritises physical and psychological safety across all levels of communities and organisations.
This approach also recognises that humans have evolved to live in social groups, in families and communities, and it is through relationships that psychological safety is established and healing is promoted.”
Siobhan O'Neill unveils 20 key points for mental health recovery plan
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The Northern Ireland Mental Health Champion shares her recommendations for a mental health recovery planInteresting read “Epigenetic changes are vital to normal biological functioning and can affect natural cycles of cellular death, renewal, and senescence. Different lifestyle and behavioral factors such as diet, sleep, exercise, smoking, and drinking alcohol can also affect the composition and location of the chemical groups that bind to our DNA. Environmental factors such as stress and trauma or even neighborhoods or zip codes may also have an impact.”
The epigenetics of aging: What the body’s hands of time tell us
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Epigenetics and aging latest scientific discoveries by NIA-supported researchers.This looks like a forward thinking approach to trauma “Using a hub-and-spoke model, the intervention would employ a family care manager to ensure coordination between Whole Family Wellness Hubs within Medi-Cal clinics, and affiliated “spoke” agencies, such as community-based organizations and adult physical and behavioral health services, as well as housing, legal, and other social supports. The hubs would also offer programs to promote mental and behavioral health for the whole family.”
New Intervention to Help Children With Trauma Will Treat the Whole Family
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Experts now believe it’s most effective to treat the whole family when traumas occur. UCSF researchers plan to develop a “Whole Family Wellness” intervention that integrates resources from Medi-...Good read “On a physiological level, Gordon explains the chronic state of fight or flight affects your emotions and even cognitive abilities. “Fight or flight activity happens in the amygdala, the portion of the emotional brain responsible for fear and anger,” he says. “The number of cells there increase while activity in the frontal part of the cerebral cortex goes down. Those are areas responsible for self-awareness and for thoughtful decision-making.” Besides that, the connections between the vagus nerve and other cranial nerves — which govern speech and facial expression — are damaged, says Gordon. “So on a biological level, we’re in this state where we’re not connected to our rational mind or our self-awareness, which is why any approach to trauma really has to begin with helping people come back into balance.”
How To Heal From COVID-Induced Trauma, According To A Harvard-Trained Psychiatrist
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A trauma expert and Harvard-trained psychiatrist shares tips on how to heal from trauma.
Informative article “Initial Reactions to Trauma
These can include exhaustion, confusion, sadness, anxiety, agitation, numbness, dissociation, and physiological arousal. You might experience a few or all of these symptoms. Increased exhaustion is often the result as the more worried and stressed people are, the more tense and constricted muscles are. Over time the muscles become exhausted and ineffectual. After a traumatic event or repeated trauma, people respond differently, experiencing a wide range of physical and emotional reactions. There is no right or wrong way to think, feel, or respond to trauma. It’s traumatic! Everyone will react differently, so don’t judge your reactions or those of other people.”
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Learn how trauma affects the body and treatments to help you recover.Sarah Madden
