Interesting read âResearch shows that the brain rewires at any age. Norman Doidge, M.D., author of The Brain that Changes Itself, says, âThe brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.â Doidge continues, âAfter the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long-lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.â
We can prime the brain for change in various ways. For example, EMDR trauma psychotherapy uses tapping or other types of stimulation alternating on the left and right sides of the body. We can also stimulate brain change by focusing attention on the physical sensations associated with our emotions. This connects directly to the second and third reasons I always hold hope for healing.â
3 Science-Based Reasons to Hold Hope for Healing Depression
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Lessons from accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP).
Lessons to be learnt from this report and for service delivery across Ireland âChild protection services in England are too focused on investigating families in crisis and do not provide enough early support, a report says. The review team looked at the availability and costs of foster care places and children's homes. It concluded this "placement market" was broken and that too often young people ended up being moved a long way from home.
Too often children are moved far from where they have grown up, are separated from their brothers or sisters, are forced to move schools, and have a revolving door of social workers," the report said.
âWe are failing to build lifelong loving relationships around these children."
Care services too focused on investigating families in crisis, says review
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Child protection services in England are not providing enough early support, a report says.
Interesting read on the privatisation of childrenâs care a model widely used in Ireland . âChildren have told me that they feel like they're being bought and sold on a market."
The Children's Commissioner for Wales renewed calls to Welsh Government to ban profit from children's social care.â
Ty Coryton children's home denies 'profit over care' claims
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It follows a BBC Wales investigation which heard claims children were "abused" at the Cardiff home.
Interesting Read âBy age 16, more than two-thirds of children report experiencing at least one traumatic event, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Fortunately, the right therapy can help children, adolescents, teens, and adults find ways to heal and cope with the effects of traumatic experiences like abuse, community violence, natural disasters, neglect, and sudden loss of a loved one.
Here, we discuss childhood trauma, the different types, how it may affect you, signs to be aware of, and treatment options for children and adults.â
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Childhood trauma can cause adverse effects both immediately and in the future. Therapy for childhood trauma can help develop coping strategies and decrease the symptoms,interesting read Danny Colton
Good Read â"We have to be very careful about how we use the word 'trauma'," he says. "The fact that you experience fear and pain right now, that's not trauma, that's just fear and pain. Trauma is the long-term negative impact of an experience. It is not what happens to us, it is what happens inside of us as a result of what happens to us. So two people can experience the same situation and come out of it very differently."
He notes that 'trauma' comes from the Greek word for 'wound': "When you think of a wound, it is raw and open. When you touch it, there is pain. The other thing that happens with trauma, as with a wound, is that you eventually develop scar tissue. It covers over the wound and it will protect you from pain but it will then become hard and inflexible and incapable of growth."
'How we cope with this has a lot to do with our past'
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Good Read âBut Covid or no Covid, adolescence has always been a period of heightened risk for mental health problems. To understand why, we need to think about what adolescence is actually for, evolutionarily speaking. Consider what a child is like before puberty: they are immature, vulnerable and highly dependent on their parents. By the end of adolescence (roughly about age 24), a person can support and look after themselves, manage complex social interactions and navigate sexual relationships. Thatâs quite the journey. The route involves a number of dramatic, protracted changes to a personâs physical body and psychological functioning, ignited by a surge of hormones and underpinned by extensive development in the brain.
All being well, this is nothing more than a bumpy ride. But itâs this exact series of changes that can sometimes go off piste, and this can trigger a mental disorder. In the words of one group of researchers studying adolescent mental health, âmoving parts get brokenâ.
Covid’s ‘lost generation’ may be more resilient than we think | Lucy Foulkes
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The fact most mental health problems begin in adolescence doesnât mean that most adolescents will suffer mental illness, says author and lecturer Lucy Foulkes
