Trauma and your body
Summary
These resources can help you understand how trauma effects a child’s body.
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Behaviours are Communication [PDF 188KB]
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Blocked care: When stress gets too much [PDF 310KB]
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Brain building: Shaping the brain with ‘serve and return’ [PDF 695MB]
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Dissociation: A survival mechanism of stressful or traumatic events [PDF 154KB]
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Eating their feelings [PDF 277KB]
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Emotional literacy and co-regulation [PDF 382KB]
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Epigenetics: how experiences influence our genes [PDF 181KB]
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Growth mindset [PDF 282KB]
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Healing trauma through occupational therapy [PDF 186KB]
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Hope for healing: Help heal a child’s brain by understanding neuroplasticity [PDF 286KB]
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How motor neurons and play support physical development [PDF 460KB]
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Internal working models: How a child’s former experiences guide current behaviour [PDF 245KB]
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Making meaning of behaviour [PDF 445KB]
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Our emotional brain: The role of chemical messengers [PDF 572KB]
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Reminders of past trauma [PDF 308KB]
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Resilience: The muscle of adversity [PDF 278KB]
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State-Dependent Functioning [PDF 254KB]
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Staying safe: The 'fawn' response [PDF 186KB]
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Staying safe: The 'fight' response [PDF 275KB]
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Staying safe: The 'flight' response [PDF 260KB]
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Staying safe: The 'fleeze' response [PDF 250KB]
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Surviving the turbulence: Supporting traumatised children [PDF 249KB]
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The body’s alarm system: Fight. Flight. Freeze [PDF 76KB]
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The in utero experience: Trauma before birth [PDF 530KB]
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The window of tolerance: Maintaining optimal arousal for trauma-focused therapy [PDF 202KB]
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Traumatic memory [PDF 158KB]
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Understanding intergenerational trauma [PDF 202KB]
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Understanding the mistrusting brain [PDF 382KB]
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Up and down the ladder: How our minds and bodies react to safety and danger [PDF 254KB]
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Vicarious trauma: Self-care to manage the impact of other people’s trauma [PDF 290KB]
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Where is trauma stored in our body [PDF 344KB]
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Why sleep is so important [PDF 1.5MB]