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Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2020 9:05:21 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 6, 2020 19:30:48 GMT
BABY ACES: When we consider the traumas that qualify as ACEs, babies need their own list. LAURA HAYNES "Babies are obviously very different from older children developmentally, including their ability to understand and process trauma. Indeed, a baby may be completely unaware of an actual ACE— say, the incarceration of their father— which a middle schooler would be painfully aware of. Yet at the same time, the baby could be much-more-acutely impacted by the secondary effect of this same ACE: a sad, stressed, and distracted mother. Similarly, if a parent dies in a car accident when a child is in middle school: that child will experience the pain and trauma of the loss, but will also have the developmental maturity to know they have not been deliberately abandoned, as well the support of a larger network of attachments, to bolster and comfort them. A baby does not have these buffering factors, and will experience the death of their mother as utter abandonment." www.acesconnection.com/blog/baby-aces-when-we-consider-the-traumas-that-qualify-as-aces-babies-need-their-own-list
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Post by Admin on Feb 11, 2020 18:55:11 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 17, 2020 10:51:50 GMT
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2016 Mar;57(3):267-70. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12540.
Commentary: The devastating effects of ignoring child maltreatment in psychiatry--a commentary on Teicher and Samson 2016.
Author: Bessel van der Kolk Abstract
"Despite the numerous studies over the past 30 years that have clarified the devastating effects of child maltreatment on mental and physical health, the role of trauma within the caregiving system remains unrecognized both in our diagnostic systems and in our dominant treatment paradigms. Research of people with histories of caregiver abuse and neglect consistently demonstrates problems with concentration, anger, panic, depression, food intake, drugs, and sleep, as well as decreased Heart RateVariability, higher levels of stress hormones, and reduced or impaired immune response. Their relationship between documented brain changes and psychopathology is complex. Traumatic life experiences during childhood and adolescence are far more common than expected. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that child maltreatment may be the most costly public health issue in the United States, Eradicating child abuse in America would reduce the overall rate of depression by more than half, alcoholism by two-thirds, and suicide, serious drug abuse, and domestic violence by three quarters. It would also have a significantly positive effect on workplace performance, and vastly decrease the need for incarceration. The current practice of applying multiple distinct comorbid diagnoses to traumatized children prevents a comprehensive treatment approach. Approaching their problems from a framework of memories of discreet traumatic ignores the fact that the damage affects the brain's neural circuitry and goes well beyond dealing with discrete painful events. Our great challenge is to learn to utilize the brain's neuroplasticity to reorganize defective brain circuits."
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Post by Admin on Mar 7, 2020 20:41:31 GMT
Traumatic Violence: The Persisting State of Fear
"Children exposed to violence are more likely to be violent. This is related to many factors, including modeling and learning that violent aggression is acceptable, even a preferable and honorable, solution to problems. Yet analysis of much of the violent behavior by children and adolescents today reveals a troubling degree of impulsive, reactive violence. This violence is often interpreted by the perpetrators as defensive. "If I didn't shoot him, he would have shot me." "I could tell that he was going to jump me -- he looked me in the eyes." "Listen, man, I did him before he did me. So. " These verbalizations reflect the persistence of a state of fear, literally, a persisting 'fight or flight' state which these adolescents are unable to get out of. The persistence of this originally adaptive internal state is due to growing up in a persistently threatening environment.
If during development, this stress response apparatus are required to be persistently active, the stress response apparatus in the central nervous system will develop in response to constant threat. These stress-response neural systems (and all functions they mediate) will be overactive and hypersensitive. It is highly adaptive for an child growing up in a violent, chaotic environment to be hypersensitive to external stimuli, to be hypervigilant, and to be in a persistent stress-response state (see Figure 6).
Clinically, this is very easily seen in children who are exposed to chronic neurodevelopmental trauma (Perry, 1994a; Perry, 1995a). These children are frequently diagnosed as having attention deficit disorder (ADD-H) with hyperactivity (Haddad et al., 1992). This is somewhat misleading, however. These children are hyperviligent, they do not have a core abnormality of their capacity to attend to a given task. These children have behavioral impulsivity, and cognitive distortions all of which result from a use- dependent organization of the brain (Pynoos et al., 1985; Pynoos, 1990). During development, these children spent so much time in a low-level state of fear (mediated by brainstem and midbrain areas) that they consistently were focusing on non-verbal but not verbal cues. In our clinical population, children raised in chronically traumatic environments a prominent V-P split on IQ testing (n = 108; WISC Verbal = 8. 2; WISC Performance = 10.4, Perry et al., in preparation). This is consistent with the clinical observations of teachers that these children are really smart but can't learn easily. Often these children are labeled as learning disabled. These difficulties with cognitive organization contribute to a more primitive, less mature style of problem-solving -- including violence. 8
These children are also characterized by persisting physiological hyperarousal and hyperactivity (Perry, 1995a; Perry, Pollard, Blakley, Baker, & Vigilante, in press). These children are observed to have increased muscle tone, frequently a low grade increase in temperature, an increased startle response, profound sleep disturbances, affect regulation problems and anxiety (Kaufman, 1991; Ornitz et al., 1989; Perry, 1994a). In addition, our studies indicate that a significant portion of these children have abnormalities in cardiovascular regulation (Perry, 1994a; Perry et al., 1995b) . All of these symptoms are the result of a use-dependent organization of the brain stem nuclei involved in the stress response apparatus (Perry, 1988; Perry et al., 1994b). The implications of this for the violent youth are apparent. First, any child exposed to chronic intrafamilial violence will develop a persisting fear response. Because there are marked gender differences in this response (Perry et al., 1995b; Perry, Pollard, Blakley, Baker, & Vigilante, in press), with females more likely to dissociate and males more likely to have a classic fight or flight response, more males will develop the aggressive, impulsive, reactive and hyperactive symptom presentation. Males will more likely be violent (George et al., 1979). This can be explained, in part, by the persistence of this fight or flight state -- and by the profound cognitive distortions that accompany this neurodevelopmental state. A young man with these characteristics, then, will very easily misinterpret a behavior by someone as threatening and will, being more reactive, act in more impulsive and violent fashion. Literally, using the original adaptive 'fight or flight' response in a new context but this time in a maladaptive fashion."
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Post by Admin on Mar 7, 2020 21:28:11 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 7, 2020 22:09:56 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 9, 2020 10:20:21 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 12, 2020 20:37:53 GMT
COMMUNITY//March 10, 2020 Adverse Childhood Experience: The Long-term Impact on Children Who Do Not HealThe Brain is the only organ that is not fully developed at birth, as a child begins to grow different stages of their development are attached to different parts and functions of the brain. The impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences is dependent on the stage of development at which the trauma occurs which will help to determine the way children shut down or hide their pain. thriveglobal.com/stories/adverse-childhood-experience-the-long-term-impact-on-children-who-do-not-heal/
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2020 15:41:59 GMT
I wonder what my issue is. I had a great childhood and I'm still crazy.
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Post by Admin on Mar 18, 2020 16:13:41 GMT
I wonder what my issue is. I had a great childhood and I'm still crazy. i think if it's deeply looked into, everyone has traumas. However it may well be that there are more biological factors in some cases.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2020 16:41:06 GMT
I wonder what my issue is. I had a great childhood and I'm still crazy. i think if it's deeply looked into, everyone has traumas. However it may well be that there are more biological factors in some cases. True.
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Post by Admin on Apr 24, 2020 10:43:11 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 21, 2020 23:57:33 GMT
Why you need to remain critical of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) victimfocus.wordpress.com/2019/03/15/why-you-need-to-remain-critical-of-aces-adverse-childhood-experiences/My final words to you are these: If you work in social care, policing, psychology, therapies, charities or any other helping profession – most of you came into this work because you believed that these kids were NOT doomed. You believed humans CAN change. You believed that with support, compassion and time, you could help humans to find their strengths and feet again. Deficits models work against you. Deficit models pose that these humans are a product of their trauma, and their outcomes are all affected because they are damaged for life. I’m not standing for that pessimistic shit and nor should you.
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Post by Admin on May 27, 2020 18:46:50 GMT
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