For Rebecca Campbell, Emily Dworkin, and Giannina Cabral self-blame in victims of sexual abuse is the product of a systemic interaction between micro and macro levels of reality. The implication of their ecological model is that for curbing and/or preventing the traumatizing effects of sexual assault, the individual-level factors (e.g.,...
Read MoreIn the words of Dr. Robert Block, the former President of the American Academy of Pediatrics Adverse childhood experiences are the single greatest unaddressed public health threat facing our nation [USA] today. And for a lot of people, that's a terrifying prospect. "A terrifying prospect"! as if our collective discovery of being hurt were...
Read MoreIf we continue to stick with our definition of trauma as an overwhelming event that poses an existential threat to our identities and bodies, then, life on earth is the story of an ongoing trauma. I always need to keep this in mind when I counsel someone. There is history behind them, and there is environment all around, and for the most part,...
Read MoreI have looked in several posts at some typical trauma behavioural and physiological responses, such as a weak lungs, risk-taking behaviours, reoccurring flash-backs or difficulty sleeping, or survival profiles such as those of the fight, flight, or freeze response, but below I want to extend our attention to something core to trauma: memory. This...
Read MoreThe Neuro Affective Relational Model, or NARM model for short, is the brainchild of world renowned Dr. Laurence Heller and it builds on current research on resilience and self-regulation, a big topic in psychology today. NARM is principally focused with developmental trauma, and suggests that trauma occurring at different stages of our critical...
Read MoreFor children of Holocaust and Russian Gulags survivors academic research has observed symptoms which would be expected if they had actually lived through the Holocaust themselves, such as a characteristic difficulty in distinguishing between reality and fantasy. This difficulty, a by-product of the lost capacity to produce symbolic...
Read MoreTim Ferris entrepreneur and author of the '4 hour work week' is interviewing Gabor Matte, a sought after researcher and writer for his expertise on trauma, addiction, stress and childhood development: ...there is a good chance that I ended up being a doctor and a writer because I was trying to fill in for the hole my mother had felt for all her...
Read MoreAcademic research and NGOs involved in the field of abuse make it certain that abuse ranging from spanking to hitting with objects of different kinds, is still astoundingly popular among parents who try to regulate the behaviour of their children. Whatever the form, all hitting has documented negative correlates, ranging from higher risks of...
Read MoreChild neglect occurs when the parent is willingly or unwillingly unable to fulfill the child’s basic needs. We are not talking about basic food, clothing and shelter needs alone here, but also basic needs for trust, emotional security, bonding, nurturance and generally speaking positive
Read MoreChildren always blame themselves for environmental failures, for failing to complete secure attachment with their primary carers, even when it is completely irrational. “I deserve this” becomes the default position for children, and this stays with them at an unconscious level into adulthood. When a very young child starts off feeling profoundly...
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