How Caregivers Can Help Children Heal from Trauma
Abstract
.Research (Birmes et al., 2005; McDonald et al., 2013; Bovin & Marx, 2011) has established that a person’s immediate experience during a traumatic event and their initial reactions afterward—the peritraumatic experience—can be accurate indicators of later symptomatic responses, as well as being predictive factors of a trauma victim developing Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder (PTSD). Practice has demonstrated that early interventions during the peritraumatic phase, particularly with children, can be effective in improving the odds that the child who is initially symptomatic will not progress to PTSD.
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Keywords
trauma, resilience, self-care, traumatic stress, mental health
Citation
Fadellcl, K. (2019, Nov. 1). How Caregivers Can Help Children Heal from Trauma. Psychology Today.