Attachment Disordered Kids and Lying
Toddlers are cute when they do obvious lying like this video of the kid caught eating sprinkles. In fact he earned a trip to the Ellen Show (Ellen talking about John)and a sprinkle bar. Attachment...
View ArticleTherapy Dogs are a Calming Influence
I thought this was an interesting article about dogs being a calming influence at Banner Hospital. That is one of the reasons we use Canine Assisted Therapy at Family Christian Counseling Center....
View ArticleCanine Therapists have calming influence on traumatized children
I knew that dogs were a calming influence. That is one of the reason we have therapy dogs at the counseling center. Check out this video of dogs that are placed with Cheetah’s to keep then calm. (I...
View ArticleCalming Trauma Victims
Children recovering from trauma often exhibit symptoms of hyperactivity and are diagnosed with ADHD. Quite often these children are actually hyper vigilant and acting out of a stress response. One...
View ArticleTraumatized Children and Lying
Karyn Purvis has lots of free information on line on the web site Empowered to Connect. Check out her comments on lying. I think that she has a reasonable and appropriate response to this issue....
View ArticleGratitude
As I read this article on gratitude I thought of how easy it is to focus on what is wrong in life rather than what is right. On a recent trip to San Diego my family experienced a rainy day with high...
View ArticleHelping children with compliance
Dr. Beth Onufrak shares some insight on helping children with transitions and compliance. The idea of the brain bridge helps us take into account what is going on in our child’s brain so that we can...
View ArticleEarly Child Development
Enjoy this video of daily experiences for a child during the first year of life. This is an interesting window into the stages of development during those early months. Neglected children miss so much...
View ArticleHow Stress affects the Brain
Bruce Perry sent this research article out on how stress affects the brain. Perry has done extensive work on the stress response in traumatized children. A small change sends them into either hyper...
View ArticleRe-homing children
Here is a report on foreign adoptees being re-homed via the internet. What a frightening story. It is sad that adoptive parents are given little if any support once they adopt. Often these children...
View ArticleNew Research from Child trauma network
Here is an announcement from the Child Trauma Academy about a new resource. Bruce Perry is one of the best sources for understanding the effect of trauma on the developing brain. While it is sobering...
View ArticleParenting Young Trauma Victims for Emotional Age
Often kids that experience early trauma continue to grow physically but get stuck emotionally, usually at the point of their traumatic experience. One of the easiest ways to parent for emotional age is...
View ArticleChild Trauma Academy
Don’t forget to check out The Child Trauma Academy’s YouTube channel. Bruce Perry’s Seven Slide series on the brain and it’s response to stress is especially helpful to all people trying to figure out...
View ArticleManipulation and Control
How Do I Handle Manipulation and Control? This video by Karyn Purvis focuses on a child’s need for control. Children that have experienced abuse and neglect learn unhealthy ways to get their needs met....
View ArticleOxytocin Therapy and Attachment
Problems with oxytocin therapy This is a study about the use of oxytocin to help children attach. It makes sense that the feel good hormone should help children feel good about their adoptive parent....
View ArticleDevelopment of empathy
This information from Zero to Three explains the ways that children develop empathy and what parents can do to help that process. Children with developmental trauma sadly do not have a caregiver that...
View ArticleCoregulation – part 1
Young children and those that have experienced early trauma require co-regulation before they can self regulate. Co-regulation requires that the adult join with the child and bring them to a state of...
View ArticleCoRegulation – Part 2
Dan Siegel talks about “connecting to calm” in this video. He makes an interesting comment that in order to connect we need to be willing to feel the child’s pain. This is difficult if we have our own...
View ArticleCo-regulation Part 3
Excerpts from the Whole-Brain Child by Dan Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson Co-regulation is about loaning yourself to your child so that he/she can calm before you try to instruct or discipline. This...
View ArticleCreating Empathy
I was reading an article in Real Simple Magazine (July 2015) about social intelligence. One suggestion for developing the ability to read other people emotions was to watch segments of movies without...
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