Category Archives: Trauma

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Flight, Fight or Freeze?

The most common misconception established in the mental health field is that our natural reaction [...]

16
Jun
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We Really Can Choose Love

We must remember to make the time to love, nurture, and train our most valuable [...]

01
Jun
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Calm the Stress, Diminish the Behavior: Parent AND Child

The parent can foster the environment necessary to calm, or regulate, the bodymind state of [...]

18
Mar
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The Adopted Child: Trauma and Its Impact

Adopted at the age of six months, Joseph was a fussy and sometimes hard to [...]

06
Nov
ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Fetal Alcohol Effects and Use of Stimulant Drugs in Native Children

By David Walker, Ph.D. Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, 314.0) is a psychiatric diagnosis described in [...]

09
Nov
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When Beauty becomes the Beast

Children's behaviors can be, at best, difficult to understand. Negative behaviors can be even more [...]

09
Nov
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Education and the Child of Trauma

Schools are filled with children who are victims of recent trauma or have a life [...]

09
Nov