Childhood Trauma Film, Lesson Plan, Overview of Science & Discussion Guide

Good article. The child's psyche is very unprotected and subject to rights. We must keep this in mind and try to protect children from possible psychologic injury. For example, in school, children get a lot of stress when something goes wrong in their studies. So that your child does not get stressed when receiving bad grades, it is better to use services like https://www.trustmypaper.com/ . This will improve your child's academic performance and protect them from potential psychologic injury.

A passage from the book Childhood Disrupted (Donna Jackson Nakazawa, page 24), about the devastating effects of chronic adverse childhood experiences, in part reads: “Well-meaning and loving parents can unintentionally do harm to a child if they are not well informed about human development …”   

Yet society generally treats human procreative rights as though we’ll somehow, in blind anticipation, be innately inclined to sufficiently understand and appropriately nurture our children’s naturally developing minds and needs.  

I strongly believe that a psychologically sound as well as a physically healthy future be every child’s foremost right, and therefore basic child development science and rearing should be learned long before the average person has their first child.  

By not teaching this to high school students, is it not as though societally we’re implying that anyone can comfortably enough go forth with unconditionally bearing children with whatever minute amount, if any at all, of such vital knowledge they happen to have acquired over time?

(This also goes for detailed practical information, or lack thereof, relating to mental health during pre-, neo- and postnatal periods.)

Perhaps foremost to consider is that during their first three to six years of life (depending on which expert one asks) children have particularly malleable minds (like a dry sponge squeezed and released under water), thus they’re exceptionally vulnerable to whatever rearing environment in which they happened to have been placed by fate.  

I frequently wonder how many instances there are wherein immense long-term suffering by children of dysfunctional rearing might have been prevented had the parent(s) received some crucial parenting instruction by way of mandatory high school curriculum.  

@Veronique Mead posted:

Hi Ana, The links are working great!

I know just what you mean about being a one person operation - making updates to my downloadables takes so many steps that I do it infrequently :-) ... 

To make it easier here are links to the two somatic therapies I recommend (I trained in both and have experienced many as a client and these are still among my favorites), for whenever and if ever you next have that window of time (ha!)

Somatic Experiencing  Practitioner Database
https://directory.traumahealing.org/?source=memgro

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Practitioner Database

https://account.sensorimotorps...y.org/directory.html

If it's ever of use, I have a blog post with a list of therapies for different types of trauma, including multigenerational trauma and attachment specifically
https://chronicillnesstraumast...auma_AIEs_ACEs_APOEs

Keep up the beautiful powerful work!!

Could you email me at anasofiajoanes@gmail.com? I'd love to do a podcast about the different therapies and be able to share that information that way.. kind of an overview of what's out there. maybe you would consider doing this or could help me identify someone who would be able to do so. 

Hi Ana, The links are working great!

I know just what you mean about being a one person operation - making updates to my downloadables takes so many steps that I do it infrequently :-) ... 

To make it easier here are links to the two somatic therapies I recommend (I trained in both and have experienced many as a client and these are still among my favorites), for whenever and if ever you next have that window of time (ha!)

Somatic Experiencing  Practitioner Database
https://directory.traumahealing.org/?source=memgro

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Practitioner Database

https://account.sensorimotorps...y.org/directory.html

If it's ever of use, I have a blog post with a list of therapies for different types of trauma, including multigenerational trauma and attachment specifically
https://chronicillnesstraumast...auma_AIEs_ACEs_APOEs

Keep up the beautiful powerful work!!

@Veronique Mead posted:

Ana - Thanks so much for permission  to post these, they look great. Any chance you have them under your resource list or healing program on your website or plan to add them there (I don't see them but may be missing them)? Your detailed exploring PDF is especially helpful and detailed.

If you ever update it, I wonder if you might consider including other somatically based trauma therapies (I saw you had Victor and EFT, EMDR, which are terrrific) such as somatic experiencing and sensorimotor psychotherapy - which specialize in working gently with the body in ways that talk therapy typically cannot access (so many of my readers have done years of talk therapy and never been able to access what happens through the support of somatically based approaches like what Victor does, given the nature of trauma and how it's not in our conscious awareness).

 

Thank you for letting me know the links were not working. I just fixed them so you should be able to see these documents on my website. Would you let me know if it works? Also, if you go on my website, it's under resources... Thank you! And yes, I'd love to add more resources... I'm just one person though and even small changes require quite a bit of time... 

Ana - Thanks so much for permission  to post these, they look great. Any chance you have them under your resource list or healing program on your website or plan to add them there (I don't see them but may be missing them)? Your detailed exploring PDF is especially helpful and detailed.

If you ever update it, I wonder if you might consider including other somatically based trauma therapies (I saw you had Victor and EFT, EMDR, which are terrrific) such as somatic experiencing and sensorimotor psychotherapy - which specialize in working gently with the body in ways that talk therapy typically cannot access (so many of my readers have done years of talk therapy and never been able to access what happens through the support of somatically based approaches like what Victor does, given the nature of trauma and how it's not in our conscious awareness).

@Veronique Mead posted:

I love your documentary and have a link to it on my website for people with chronic illness who are learning about attachment wounding / developmental trauma / complex PTSD and links to ACEs and other types of trauma. It's my favorite reference and so beautifully done xoxox

Thank you Veronique! This feedback means so much to me. Please feel free to also link to the PDF attached to this post which explores with more depth the impact of childhood trauma and the healing journey. I was told it's a really helpful and easy to read document and helps readers figure out what they can do to start healing. xoxo

I love your documentary and have a link to it on my website for people with chronic illness who are learning about attachment wounding / developmental trauma / complex PTSD and links to ACEs and other types of trauma. It's my favorite reference and so beautifully done xoxox