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Trauma can have a significant impact on young children, both in the short and long term. Traumatic events can range from physical or emotional abuse, neglect, domestic violence, natural disasters, accidents, and more. Young children who experience trauma may have difficulty processing and coping with their emotions, leading to changes in behavior and mental health problems.

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Module 1 – young children and trauma
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What is trauma? Trauma is the emotional, psychological and physiological residue left over from heightened stress that accompanies experience of threat, violence and life changing events Source: Australian Childhood Foundation, Making Space for Learning: Trauma Informed Practice in Schools, 2010, A more overwhelming event than a person would ordinarily be expected to encounter Source: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, .
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How do children react following trauma? Every child reacts to trauma differently Reaction will depend on: Developmental level Premorbid functioning Previous life experiences Level of exposure to the trauma Parental reactions Subsequent changes in living situation The majority of children are resilient Source: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine,2011, Childhood Trauma Reactions, www.uq.edu.au
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Types of trauma Complex trauma Family violence Medical trauma Natural disasters Community and school violence Neglect Physical abuse Sexual abuse Traumatic grief Refugee and war zone trauma Source: Adapted from The National Child Traumatic Stress Network, www.nctsn.org.
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Complex trauma Exposure to multiple or prolonged traumatic events Typically involves simultaneous or sequential occurrences of child maltreatment, including psychological maltreatment, neglect, physical and sexual abuse and family violence, that are chronic and begin in early childhood and occur within the primary caregiving system
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Family violence Actual or threatened physical or sexual violence or emotional abuse
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Medical trauma Reactions to pain, injury and serious illness or to invasive medical procedures (such as surgery) or treatments (such as burn care)
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Natural disasters Occurrences where local, state and/or national agencies and disaster relief services are called into action e.g. fires, floods
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Community and school violence trauma Predatory violence (robbery) and violence that comes from personal conflicts between people who are not known to the child (shootings, stabbings, beatings) Fights at school, threats to or injury of child
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Neglect Neglect can mean a parent or caregiver not providing: food shelter clothing access to medical and health treatment Neglect can mean: exposing a child to dangerous environments poor supervision putting a child in the care of someone incapable of caring for the child abandoning a child or expelling a child from home
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Physical abuse Causing or attempting to cause physical pain or injury (punching, kicking, hitting, burning or harming a child in other ways) Can consist of a single incident or multiple incidents
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Sexual abuse Includes a wide range of sexual behaviours that take place between a child and an older person Behaviours include: sexual kissing touching fondling of genitals intercourse flashing verbal pressure for sex sexual exploitation e.g. prostitution exposure to pornography
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Refugee or war zone trauma Exposure to war, political violence or torture Can be the result of living in a region affected by bombing, shooting or looting as well as forced displacement to a new home due to political reasons
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Traumatic grief Death of a family member or someone important to the child May be sudden and unexpected (e.g. accident) or anticipated (e.g. illness or other natural causes)
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The effect of trauma on children Children who experience horrible external events may experience emotional harm or psychic trauma. Left untreated, all but the mildest of childhood trauma can have an impact on the child Source: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Your Child – Childhood Trauma and Its Effects, . It is important to remember that abuse, neglect and other trauma have different impacts on different children − and that while we have to take seriously the negative impacts of trauma we cannot underestimate the strength of human resilience Source: Child Safety Commissioner, 2009, From isolation to connection: a guide to understanding and working with traumatised children and young people, .
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What does a normal brain look like? Source: Australian Childhood Foundation, 2010, Making Space for Learning: Trauma Informed Practice in Schools, pp 19.
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Source: Australian Childhood Foundation, 2010, Making Space for Learning: Trauma Informed Practice in Schools, pp 21.
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Source: Australian Childhood Foundation, 2010, Making Space for Learning: Trauma Informed Practice in Schools, pp 23.
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Trauma, neglect and brain development Neglect is the absence of critical organising experiences at key times during development It can involve sensory deprivation in a number of domains such as language, touch and social interactions Unlike a broken bone, maldevelopment of neural systems mediating empathy, for example, resulting from emotional neglect during infancy is not readily observable Source: Perry, B D., 2002, Childhood Experience and the Expression of Genetic Potential: What Childhood Neglect Tells Us About Nature and Nurture, Brain and Mind Vol 3: pp 79-100. 19
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Source: Perry, BD., 2002, Childhood Experience and the Expression of Genetic Potential: What Childhood Neglect Tells Us About Nature and Nurture, Brain and Mind Vol 3: pp 79-100. 20
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The impact of trauma on children Source: Child Safety Commissioner, 2009, From isolation to connection: a guide to understanding and working with traumatised children and young people, . 21
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Intergenerational impact Traumas reverberate down the generations and show as problems such as substance abuse, mental illness, family violence, child abuse and neglect Often accompanied by poverty, isolation and physical illness Problems often found together and often make each other worse
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Families and communities impact Trauma experienced by one person will usually have a ripple effect on other family members, extended family and friends
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The impact of environment Poverty, poor housing, lack of access to clean water or nutritious food Discrimination and racism Abuse and neglect
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The impact of Placement disruption Children who are removed from home and are separated from their parents due to abuse and/or neglect have to undergo massive internal reorganisation e.g. new home, new school, new culture
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Fight, flight freeze Trauma sends children’s bodies into survival mode − fight, flight or freeze
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Trauma impact 0-12 months (cont.) Neurobiology of brain and central nervous system altered by switch on alarm response Behavioural changes Regression in recently acquired developmental gains Hyperarousal, hypervigilance and hyperactivity
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Trauma impact 0-12 months (cont.) Sleep disruption Loss of acquired motor skills Lowered stress threshold Lowered immune system Fear response to reminders of trauma Mood and personality changes
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Trauma impact 0-12 months (cont.) Loss of, or reduced capacity to attune with caregiver Loss of, or reduced capacity to manage emotional states or self-soothe Insecure, anxious or disorganised attachment behaviour Heightened anxiety when separated from primary parent/carer
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Trauma impact 0-12 months (cont.) Indiscriminate relating Reduced capacity to feel emotions − can appear numb Cognitive delays and memory difficulties Loss of acquired communication skills
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Trauma impact 12 months-3 years As for 0 − 12 months Increased resistance to parental direction Memory fro trauma may be evident in behaviour, language or play
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Trauma impact 3-5 years (cont.) Behavioural changes Hyperarousal, hypervigilance, hyperactivity Loss of toileting and eating skills Regression in recently acquired developmental gains Sleep disturbances, night terrors
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Trauma impact 3-5 years (cont.) Enuresis and encopresis Delayed gross motor and visual-perceptual skills Fear of trauma recurring Mood and personality changes Loss of, or reduced capacity to manage emotional states or self-soothe
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Trauma impact 3-5 years (cont.) Increased need for control Fear of separation Loss of self-esteem and self-confidence Confusion about trauma evident in play … magical explanations and unclear understanding of causes of bad events Speech, cognitive and auditory processing delays
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Trauma impact 3-5 years (cont.) Vulnerable to anniversary reactions set off by seasonal reminders, holidays and other events Memory of intrusive visual images from traumatic event may be demonstrated/recalled in words and play At the older end of this range, children are more likely to have lasting, accurate verbal and pictorial memory for central events of the trauma
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Trauma impact 5-7 years Behavioural change Increased tension, irritability, reactivity and inability to relax Sleep disturbances, nightmares, night terrors, difficulty falling or staying asleep Regression of behaviour Lack of eye contact
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Trauma impact 5-7 years (cont.) spacey, easily distracted or hyperactive behaviour Toileting accidents/enuresis or smearing of faeces Eating disturbances Bodily aches and pains − no apparent reason Accident proneness
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Trauma impact 5-7 years (cont.) Absconding/truanting from school Firelighting, hurting animals Obvious anxiety, fearfulness and loss of self-esteem Specific fears Efforts to distance from feelings of shame, guilt, humiliation
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Trauma impact 5-7 years (cont.) Reduced capacity to feel emotions − may appear numb or apathetic frozen watchfulness Vulnerable to anniversary reactions caused by seasonal events, holidays Repeated retelling of traumatic event Withdrawal, depressed affect
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Trauma impact 5-7 years (cont.) blanking out or loss of concentration when under stress at school with lowering of performance Explicit, aggressive, exploitive, sexualised relating/engagement with other children Sexualised behaviour towards adults Sexualised drawing
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Trauma impact 5-7 years Cont.) Verbally describes experiences of sexual abuse, pointing to body parts and telling about the game they played Excessive concern or preoccupation with private parts and adult sexual behaviour Verbal or behavioural indications of age-inappropriate knowledge of adult sexual behaviour Running away from home
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Trauma impact 7-9 years Changes in behaviour Hyperarousal, hypervigilance, hyperactivity Regression in recently acquired developmental gains Sleep disturbances due to intrusive imagery Enuresis and encopresis
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Trauma impact 7-9 years (cont.) Eating disturbances Loss of concentration and memory Post-traumatic re-enactments of traumatic event that may occur secretly and involve siblings or playmates Trauma driven acting out, risk taking behaviour
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Trauma impact 7-9 years (cont.) Flight into driven activity or retreat from others to manage inner turmoil Loss of interest in previously pleasurable activities Fear of trauma recurring Mood or personality changes Loss of, or reduced capacity to manage emotional states or self-soothe
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Trauma impact 7-9 years (cont.) Increased self-focusing and withdrawal Concern about personal responsibility for trauma Wish for revenge and action oriented response to trauma May experience acute distress encountering any reminder of trauma
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Trauma impact 7-9 years (cont.) Lowered self-esteem Increased anxiety or depression Fearful of closeness and love Likely to have detailed, long-term and sensory memory for traumatic event − sometimes the memory is fragmented or repressed Speech or cognitive delays
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Trauma impact 7-9 years (cont.) Factual accurate memory may be embellished by elements of fear or wish − perception of duration may be distorted Intrusion of unwanted visual images and traumatic reactions disrupt concentration and create anxiety often without parent awareness Vulnerable to flashbacks of recall and anniversary reactions to reminders of trauma
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What can I do? Make sure the abuse or other trauma has stopped Begin to build a relationship, by being honest, reliable and doing what you say you will do Understand trauma Help them feel safe through nurture, structure and support Use boundaries and logical consequences Stay calm and well-regulated − even as you set limits on aggression − to avoid power battles
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What can I do? Understand your own traumas, so you can reflect on your own feelings and reactions Co-regulate with the child: use your calm to soothe and help them calm Don’t take their behaviour personally Use discipline without shaming Engage with family members and carers Adapted from: Child Safety Commissioner, 2009, From isolation to connection: a guide to understanding and working with traumatised children and young people, www.kids.vic.gov.
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References and resources Australian Child and Adolescent Trauma, Loss and Grief Network, 2012, How children and young people experience and react to traumatic events, ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment. Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2009, Understanding the Effects of Maltreatment on Brain Development, US Department of Health and Human Services. Department of Education, Manitoba, Classroom Behavioural Strategies and Interventions, . Department of Human Services Victoria, Child development and trauma specialist practice resource. The Help Guide, August 2012, Healing Emotional and Psychological Trauma, .
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