Sentences with phrase «as impact of traumas»

I specialize in couples and family therapy resolving family of origin influences or dysfunctions, as well as impact of traumas.

Not exact matches

Traditional Buddhist stories abound of meditators being taken over by evil spirits, and contemporary psychological studies of mindfulness practice going back to the 1970s include patients who experienced hallucinations, psychotic episodes, depression and other mental trauma, as well as nerve pain and similar physical impacts.

As for Tagliabue, his waving off of the concussion issue in the»90s, and the league's turning a blind eye to head injuries for much of his tenure, no doubt damaged his candidacy for joining in Canton the very men at risk for long - term impacts of brain trauma due to the sport.

Unfortunately, there has been during this same period, and especially in the last five to ten years, a substantial increase in the number of reported cases of second impact syndrome (SIS), which occurs when an athlete who sustains head trauma, i.e. a traumatic brain injury - often a concussion or worse injury, such as a cerebral contusion (bruised brain)- sustains a second head injury before signs of the initial injury have cleared.

said sensors are helping coaches and other personnel at UNC identify athletes who are sustaining a high number of high force impacts, especially to the top front of their helmets which appear to be the most worrisome from a brain trauma standpoint, as a result of poor tackling or blocking technique.

She lives with her family in London, Ontario, and runs a private counseling practice entitled Sharing Spaces, with her practice partner Amanda Saunders, specializing in supporting families as they manage and heal from the impacts of birth trauma.

This month's spotlight is on Parenting Journey, an organization that recognizes that systemic stressors such as poverty, substance use, trauma, domestic violence, and immigration impact the mental wellness and the care provided to children, on top of the everyday stressors of parenting.

The long - term impact is in proportion to the severity and length of the trauma as well as the degree the trauma interferes with the child connecting with its mother and father.

This is well backed by much literature, science and research, especially as we are growing in our understanding of trauma, its impact and how to heal from it when we get stuck in trauma responses.

Flight into adulthood seen as way of escaping impact and memory of trauma (early marriage, pregnancy, dropping out of school, abandoning peer group for older set of friends)

Two of the Purdue studies [36,37] suggested that it might be possible to reduce risk of brain trauma by gradually increasing the amount of contact in the football pre-season to allow time for players» brains to adjust, and one, by finding that players who sustained more than 50 hits per game, were much more likely than those who sustained fewer hits to be «flagged» by ImPACT and / or fMRI results as having neurocognitive deficits or altered brain activity, suggested that players be limited to a certain number of plays per game (a hard rule to implement, given the prevalence of two - way players in the high school game).

Brain trauma among football players (and athletes in other sports such as soccer and ice hockey) may be less the result of violent collisions that cause concussions as the cumulative effect of repetitive head impacts (RHI).

As we grow to increase our awareness of trauma, we are expanding our understanding of the full range of impact it has on individuals.

In my most recently published paper «Post-war voters as fiscal liberals: local elections, spending, and war trauma in contemporary Croatia», co-authored with Professor Josip Glaurdić from the University of Luxemburg, we attempt to provide an answer to these questions in the context of a post-conflict society in which we examine how the impact of war affects citizens» preferences towards redistribution.

He says he will also talk about trauma in the wake of such natural disasters as Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, which impacted his 19th Congressional District.

Relying on modern forensic techniques, such as contour and trajectory analysis of the traumas, the authors of the study showed that both fractures were likely produced by two separate impacts by the same object, with slightly different trajectories around the time of the individual's death.

They add: «What is similar between now and then is the human genetic material, our genome, including ancient polymorphisms that were uncovered to predispose the carrier to the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease... however, our ancient ancestors were certainly susceptible to many other conditions, such as infectious diseases, nutritional deprivation, and trauma, which often resulted in death at an early age, before atherosclerotic heart disease had a clinical impact.»

In a first - of - its - kind effort to illuminate the biochemical impact of trauma, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered a connection between the quantity of cannabinoid receptors in the human brain, known as CB1 receptors, and post-traumatic stress disorder, the chronic, disabling condition that can plague trauma victims with flashbacks, nightmares and emotional instability.

«Our goal is to raise overall awareness of military sexual trauma, including the impact on male veterans, and associated adverse outcomes such as homelessness,» Kimerling says.

As one of the of the center's research projects, Dr. Kent P. Hymel, a child abuse pediatrician at Penn State Children's Hospital, will lead eight pediatric intensive care units from across the country in a randomized clinical trial designed to assess the impact of a novel screening tool for pediatric abusive head trauma.

While impact is often seen as a negative aspect of running, equating to trauma and injury, a proper gait is potentially associated with better bone density and improved muscle and tendon function, better circulation and other healthy benefits associated with exercise.

Using trauma - sensitive strategies — such as training staff in the impact of trauma on learning, reframing behavior through a trauma lens, and using positive, proactive discipline strategies — can help prevent re-traumatization and create the safe and supportive environment students who have experienced trauma need in order to learn.14

At Kirkwood School in Toppenish, Washington, they saw discipline referrals drop from seven per day to only two or three after only a few months of teaching lessons from the Second Step program in classrooms.18 But when SEL is part of a system that's also using prevention - focused approaches to discipline such as SWPBIS, restorative practices, and trauma - sensitive strategies, the positive impact can be greatly enhanced.

TLPI defines a «trauma - sensitive school» as «[a school] in which all students feel safe, welcomed, and supported, and where addressing trauma's impact on learning is at the center of its educational mission.»

Many kids were facing serious issues outside of the classroom, such as poverty, homelessness, and trauma, which negatively impacted their ability to focus and learn in the classroom.

We have considerable data about the impact of poverty and trauma on short - term learning and brain development, as well as long - term health and well - being.

Last week Loyola Law School hosted «The Educator as Advocate,» a symposium to discuss topics ranging from the impact of student records on criminal sentencing, school safety versus the over-policing of schools, trauma - informed education practices, and much more.

Given the complex needs and challenges that Lampron's students face, it's a huge and important question to tackle — and it's led to a core team of teachers, district staff, support staff, and administrators engaging in conversations around topics such as discipline policies, classroom management, staff roles, forming relationships with students, and shifting school culture to understand the impact of trauma.

A growing body of research points to the need to understand how childhood trauma (commonly referred to as Adverse Childhood Experiences or «ACE's») impact a student's academic outcomes, social - emotional well - being and predict their likelihood of developing future chronic diseases.

Twenty - first century students, namely those from «at - promise» populations, must contend with unique challenges such as financial hardship, digital illiteracy and emotional trauma, all of which deeply impact their ability to succeed as scholars.

As the recent trial of Jian Ghomeshi shows, memories can change over time and be impacted by stress and trauma.

Sadly, as the Tribunal aptly stated in its decision, «It is only because of their race and / or national or ethnic origin that [First Nations children and families] suffer the adverse impacts outlined above... Furthermore, these adverse impacts perpetuate the historical disadvantage and trauma suffered by Aboriginal people, in particular as a result of the Residential Schools system.»

Brain Injuries Whether sustained through physical trauma or as a result of a lack of oxygen or blood, a brain injury may have a dramatic impact on virtually every area of a victim's life.

Orthopedic trauma typically involves bone fractures caused by falling or a forced impact trauma as a result of a motor vehicle accident, motorcycle accident, pedestrian accident, tour bus accident, train accident, truck accident or bicycle accident.

Brain trauma can occur from either a direct impact to the head or from a rapid deceleration or acceleration of the head, such as whiplash.

As part of her clinical work, she provides outpatient psychotherapy to children and adolescents who have been impacted by abuse and trauma.

Her full time clinical practice focuses on the long term impact of attachment disorders and early life trauma, as well as dissociation, anxiety, depression, and relationship problems.

«A limited conception of poverty, lack of resources to address it, and lack of attention to the impacts of trauma, addiction and lifelong disadvantage on the choices that people experience themselves as having may contribute to over-emphasising agency at the expense of structural inequality» (p, 97).

«I work diligently to provide a safe place for individuals and couples seeking to address issues such as relationship dysfunction, depression, anxiety, addiction, codependency, and trauma, especially where these issues negatively impact a client's ability to maintain a sense of reverence for self or connection and intimacy with others.

The goal of this paper is to advance the theory of chronic and traumatic stressors that have been identified as type III traumas in the trauma developmentally - based framework (DBTF) and use it to investigate the mental and physical health effects of such traumas on impacted individuals and groups.

It is beginning to be accepted that while much offending behaviour is linked to social marginalisation and economic disadvantage, the impact of non-economic deprivation, such as damage to identity and culture, as well as trauma and grief, have a significant relationship to offending behaviour.

While animal data would suggest that institutional rearing would lead to reduced hippocampal volume, some investigators have suggested that such effects may not become evident in humans until later in life.18 Consistent with this, decreased hippocampal volumes have been found in numerous studies of adults who experienced high levels of childhood stress / trauma.19, 20 In spite of this hypothesized delayed hippocampal effect, a positive impact of early supportive parenting on hippocampal development has been detected as early as school age.21

I often work with couples to rebuild trust and security after infidelity, cope with the impact of depression or anxiety on emotional closeness, and heal experiences such as trauma, PTSD, and childhood abuse.

I work with individuals, couples and families to help them resolve the impact of abuse and trauma, as well as problems of depression, anxiety, anger, grief, couples» discord, family conflicts, behavioral issues, low self - esteem, and life transitions.

Using Pia Mellody's model of trauma and inner child re-parenting as well as EMDR (Francine Shapiro's eye movement desensitization reprocessing) Leslie helps to educate, guide, teach, treat and empower one to recognize their own wounding's impact and how to help them have more functional choices in their everyday life.

Service providers dealing with childhood trauma should also be aware of the systemic impact of a traumatic experience on the family as a whole.

She also works in private practice and as a consultant on the impact of trauma work to Family and Community Services and the Australian Government Solicitor.

This workshop combines lecture, video, and experiential exercises to explore a neurobiologically - informed understanding of the impact of trauma on attachment behavior, somatic interventions for challenging trauma - related relational patterns, and how to use ourselves as «neurobiological regulators» of the client's dysregulated emotional and autonomic states.

Our team can work with the «whole of family approach» to respond to events that may have had an impact upon their lives like «Sorry Business» or trauma such as domestic and family violence.

Each partner is also asked to complete the Trauma Impact Questions, a set of questions designed to elicit each partner's thoughts about how PTSD has affected their relationship and the perceived cause (s) of the traumatic event (s), as well as each partner's thoughts about oneself, his or her partner, and the world in general in the areas of trust, control, emotional closeness, and physical intimacy.