Young children may not be able to express how they feel about a natural disaster or cope with terrorism through words, but they can do so through drawing or playing, he says. "Have them draw what happened and ask how the person in the drawing feels," he says, or "ask them to draw ...
” Norcross said in a medical center news release. “All children, regardless of their age, should be encouraged to express their reactions to the event, and parents should feel free to talk about their emotions.”
When kids grow up in a household where parents aren’t around or don't show love, or a school where they don’t feel like they are heard, children can develop childhood trauma. This, combined withpubertyissues, develops into full-blown depression and anxiety when they reach their teenage y...
This gap is surprising given that mother-child dialogues may particularly promotechildren's recovery from traumatic events. The current descriptive study examined the quality of mother-child emotion dialogues, as well as the quality of child and maternal contributions to dialogues, among dyads with ...
Source: "Hippo on the Window," George Hodan, used with permission It's never easy to deal with death. As adults, it overwhelms us. And it's even harder for children to move through. Though we know it's an inevitable part of life, talking about death is something most o...
(Rooney Mara), and Salome (Claire Foy), gather their children and pack everything they have and can spare before riding away at dawn. After going back and forth on whether they should do nothing or leave, the latter was a choice they came to collectively, and is one that would affect ...
If my life were a book, I would start here, standing in front of the long row of check-in tables at the California Children’s Book Festival with something that feels very much like hope blooming in my chest. And if Jenna were the editor of my book – and she totally would be, bec...
Trauma leads to emotional reactions, changes in behavior, emotional shock, and even post-traumatic stress disorder. The first step in helping children cope with catastrophe is to sort through our own feelings and get the support we need.
“all together” and are the envy of the neighborhood. Children and young people can indeed be traumatized by even one parental remark or event, or one behavior that was crushing and made them feel very sad, alone, scared or rejected. These traumatic events are oftenburned into our ...
If my life were a book, I would start here, standing in front of the long row of check-in tables at the California Children’s Book Festival with something that feels very much like hope blooming in my chest. And if Jenna were the editor of my book – and she totally would be, bec...