This article was written by AC member Brenda Yuen.
"Is it any wonder our boys are in trouble?
"Unaddressed trauma can cause both adults and children to try to escape their feelings about that trauma in destructive ways (think addictions, mental health issues, inability to regulate emotions, risky maladaptive coping choices). Trauma harms a person’s ability to trust and that lack of trust makes it difficult to reach out for or to accept help. And yet our child welfare, legal and educational systems are all set up so that the system, not the family or child, holds all of the power and control....
"The trauma-informed approach is still in its infancy stages, as adult professionals in a wide variety of systemic disciplines learn to set aside their individual goals, approaches, egos and territorial strangleholds to ask themselves, together, “what is in the best interest of this child?”
http://buildingboys.net/how-trauma-affects-boys-how-some-helpers-unwittingly-make-things-worse/
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