Children and P.T.S.D.
A Model for Treating Traumatized Children and Families.
Relationship building and information gathering regarding the trauma.
The Therapist describes the purpose and the
process for treating children and family members
who have been traumatized.
Assessment of the child and the child’s family.
The Therapist gathers information regarding the
family structure, childhood experiences,medical,
social and psychological and addiction patterns,
any previous traumatic experiences.
Trauma Interview.
The Therapist facilities the child’s telling of the
traumatic experience through drawings or
role-playing. The Therapist encourages specific
attention to details including the sights,sounds,
smells and accountability for the events.
Identification of treatment issues (Issues are
i always identified for the child which will need to
be addressed such as difficulty coping with
nightmares, physiological or impulse control.)
Treatment issues are identified for the family,
including management of their Child's
post-trauma consequences.
I will be publishing a new book on traumatized children based on my many years experience as
a Youth Justice Officer looking at how trauma can influence children becoming anti-social and
getting involved in criminal activity and also
therefore the influence of gangs and how they
become the family substitute.
This Center is also intended to be a specialist
service to assist any children and their parents
who have any behavioural problems associated
with A.D.H.D and also P.T.S.D or also A.D.D.
This will be a specialist hypnotherapy service
aimed at children and delivered by a Enhanced
C.R.B. holder and staff. They will also be looking
at many other behavioural problems including
substance misuse and associated problems.
Please contact us for more details.
This system will be a three level assessment
system and also performance monitoring that
will record the practice used and then assessed
against a list of performance monitoring stages.
I AM IN THE PROCESS OF SETTING UP A HYPNOTHERAPY SYSTEM
DESIGNED FOR USE WITH CHILDREN AND INCORPORATING MANY
OF THE TECHNIQUES THAT I HAVE USED WITH MY MANY
TRAUMATIZED CLIENTS.
I AM PUTTING THIS SYSTEM IN PLACE TO HELP AND ASSIST PARENTS
AND CHILDREN TO BE ABLE TO NOT USE MEDICATION. THIS WOULD
ENABLE PARENTS AND CHILDREN TO HAVE A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE TO
USING THE STANDARD APPROACH TO TREAT THE BEHAVIOURAL
PROBLEMS SUCH AS A.D.H.D. I WILL ALSO BE USING SUCH METHODS
AS E.F.T. AND E.M.D.R .AS PART OF THE WHOLE SYSTEMATIC
APPROACH TO THE BEHAVIOURAL RANGE OF PROBLEMS .
There has been a new article on the subject of
E.M.D.R. and children published in the B.A.C.P.
Journal April 20XX edition, written by Ms Joanne
Morris Smith. I am fully supportive of the idea of
using E.M.D.R. with children as I have found by
my own experience that using this method of
treating children with trauma and also the use of
E.F.T. as well, has proved to be very effective.
"Quote" - E.M.D.R. is a particularly powerful psychotherapy and can bring very rapid and
substantial changes for children and adolescents.
One of the main things is that children find it
easy to relate to the structured nature of the
protocol which is adapted to meet their
developmental needs and the use of
alternating bilateral stimulation.This protocol
enables them to become pro-active in their own treatment because it focuses on issues that are
of concern to them rather than issues about
them that are of concern to the adults in their
world. I find that once children have
experienced the relief that E.M.D.R. therapy
brings for one problem, then they are more than
willing to take ownership of the process. It is not uncommon to find children as young as five years of age coming into the next E.M.D.R. session, sitting
down and stating what they want to work on.
The nature of the therapy enables their problems
to be unfolded at their pace of the child and to be processed uniquely for their needs. I am often
struck by the amazing things children invent for themselves in their own processing to help with
own problems.
For example, one child conjured up a machine
that could destroy flashbacks by systematically
blasting each picture, frame by frame"Unquote".
Having found some interesting video clips on the subject of Traumatized children, here is a small
selection on the subjects that are available.
Click on the videos to expend them and play them also many more items in
the actual video themselves.
