Trauma Informed Care
"It's hard to focus on learning when you don't feel safe" - Patricia A. Jennings
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Trauma
Trauma
A trauma-sensitive school utilizes trauma-informed care to provide a safe environment that enables students to build caring relationships with staff and peers, to learn and practice self-regulation and to understand emotions and behaviors. At RES, we work to alleviate the effects of trauma by incorporating Social Emotional Learning strategies into counseling lessons and classroom instruction.
A trauma-sensitive school utilizes trauma-informed care to provide a safe environment that enables students to build caring relationships with staff and peers, to learn and practice self-regulation and to understand emotions and behaviors. At RES, we work to alleviate the effects of trauma by incorporating Social Emotional Learning strategies into counseling lessons and classroom instruction.
Trauma - Is the response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms an individual’s ability to cope, causes feelings of helplessness, diminishes their sense of self and their ability to feel a full range of emotions and experiences.
Traumatic experiences can make it difficult for children to access their prefrontal cortex, the portion of the brain that governs emotional regulation and executive functioning (cognition and behavior).
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
An adverse childhood experience (ACE) is trauma that takes place in a child’s life before age 17.
Examples include:
• Physical, emotional, sexual abuse
• Alcohol and/or drug abuse in the household
• An incarcerated household member
• Someone in the household who is/was depressed, mentally ill, institutionalized or suicidal
• Mother treated violently
• One or no parent/Divorce
• Emotional or physical neglect
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