#183: Is Your Child Experiencing Trauma from the Pandemic?
Parenting Beyond Discipline
Erin Royer, MA Clinical Psychology, Child Development Specialist
4.4 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
A mom who is adopting asks a question about parenting a child with a history of trauma. However, many kids are experiencing trauma due to the conditions and stresses from the pandemic. So many changes, lives turned upside down. Is your child experiencing some trauma? What does it look like? How do we support kids to heal from trauma be it from a natural disaster like the pandemic or those coming out of the foster/child welfare system? Erin dives into these answers in this episode
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| 0:47.7 | So this week, I'm going to answer Julie's next question, which actually is related to the stay at home during the pandemic, at least |
| 0:56.2 | for some kids, and that's about kids and trauma. Believe it or not, some of our kids may be |
| 1:02.4 | experiencing some levels of trauma. So I'm going to talk about what is trauma, what are the |
| 1:07.7 | effects of trauma, and then how do we as parents help kids heal from trauma? Last week's episode about the effects of trauma? And then how do we as parents help kids heal from trauma? |
| 1:12.7 | Last week's episode about the effects of stay at home on kids' development was a nice precursor |
| 1:17.4 | and an understanding about how the stay-at-home orders have likely affected development of kids at different ages. |
| 1:23.2 | So if you haven't listened, you may want to go back and listen to the last week's episode as well. |
| 1:28.6 | Even going forward, when kids go back to school and activities, the rules in place will be different for them. |
| 1:33.9 | Things will look and feel different. The rules will be different. |
| 1:37.4 | So talking about trauma, so parents can be aware of how their children may actually be experiencing trauma, |
| 1:43.6 | even if we didn't realize that's exactly |
| 1:45.5 | what it was. A second question about setting up a developmental play space at home. So I'll talk about |
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