Introduction to internal working models: Internal Working Models: Internal representations of self, caregivers, and the world initially generated via experiences with the primary caregiver, modified by the interpretation of experiences through the rest of our lives. Positive Internal Working...
Learn about the benefits of the Trauma Lens Paradigm Shift Trauma Lens Paradigm Shift: Parental learning and the implication Parents see theirs and others’ fear driving problematic behaviors. A problematic behavior is a behavior that either fails to achieve the desired results or accumulates...
Parenting qualities: When we sign up to be a foster or adoptive parent, we are most likely unaware of the depth of the task ahead. Most of us enter this parenting with an assumption that we have the needed skills. We may have parented other children, had good role models, or a preconceived idea of...
Emotional blindness and how it impacts parents parenting traumatized children What is it? Emotional blindness-referenced in D. Siegel’s book, then researched it. Emotional blindness: an inability to identify and describe one’s own and other’s emotions. It’s considered a personality trait that can...
“We buy him every toy imaginable…!” Learn how parents teach play skills, how those skills are used in the rest of their life, and why this can be hard with a traumatized...
We recommend four powerful strategies for implementing the paradigm shift required for healing trauma. Here are six reasons the strategies are so...
When parents think about therapeutic parenting, they question if they can give consequences. Learn more as we discuss...
What is a trauma disrupted competency? How does it occur? Why is it important to my child’s recovery? Learn all of this and...