Trauma and children - tips for parents
There is a variety of things you can do to help your child recover from distressing or frightening experiences. Time and support can help a child to cope with trauma. If you are concerned about your child, or feel that you aren't coping yourself, ... [... more]
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Beyond the Trauma Vortex
Gina Ross proposes a collaboration between the media, trauma researchers, and helping officials in order to break the vicious cycle of trauma and violence. The media, Ross suggests, can use their tremendous influence to promote peace rather than ... [... more]
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Trauma and children
The way children respond to a distressing or frightening experience depends on a wide range of factors including the nature of their experience, previous experiences, their age and stage of development, and the impact of the experience on their ... [... more]
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Trauma and teenagers - tips for parents
Young people in your family need both your support and your adult perspective. The way you help them to handle distressing and frightening events will influence their behaviour in future crises. Teenagers who experience distressing and ... [... more]
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Trauma and families
If your family is affected by a distressing or frightening experience, it is important to understand each other's experience of the event and reactions. This will help to avoid communication breakdowns and other problems. There are many ... [... more]
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Trauma - how our body reacts
An event that endangers life or property can provoke distress reactions in the people involved. Brain chemicals put the mind on high alert and prime the nervous system, circulation and muscles to respond to the threat. This instinctive response ... [... more]
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Trauma and teenagers - common reactions
Your teenager will handle the experience of distressing or frightening events differently to young children or adults. In order to help them, parents need to understand the ways in which a teenager manages distress and trauma. Teenagers who ... [... more]
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Trauma and families - tips
In families affected by distressing or frightening experiences, each person reacts in their own way. Understanding each other and some of the common reactions to look out for can help your family avoid communication breakdown and other problems. ... [... more]
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Trauma - reacting and recovering
It is normal to have strong emotional or physical reactions following a distressing or frightening event. In fact, these feelings are part of the healing process. Reactions to trauma may last for days, weeks or even longer. There are strategies ... [... more]
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Trauma - after effects
Powerful physical and emotional reactions are a normal response to distress and trauma. Distress reactions can occur hours, days, weeks or even months after such events. Distressing or frightening events such as car accidents, bush fires, floods, ... [... more]
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Trauma - helping loved ones
It can be difficult to know how to help someone you love when they have gone through a distressing or frightening event. There are a number of things you can do to help. It's always a good idea to ask the person how you can best support them ... [... more]
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Trauma ... all about
Car accidents, falls from high places, industrial and farming accidents and assault can all cause trauma. Witnessing events like natural disasters, terrorist attacks and car accidents can also be traumatic. Stress reactions after traumatic events ... [... more]
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