Sentences with phrase «traumatic early relationships»

Much of my focus is on helping adults resolve emotional problems arising from traumatic early relationships or those triggered within current relationships at home, at work, or socially.

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There's prolonged, more intense pain postpartum, a longer hospital stay, readmission to the hospital, an upsetting or emotionally traumatic birth experience, less early contact and connection with the baby, depression and mental health problems, low self - esteem, relationship issues, difficulty functioning and doing usual daily activities postpartum, chronic pelvic pain from scar tissue, problems with and discontinuing breastfeeding - along with the associated risks to mom and baby of not breastfeeding.

In 2010, more than 1 in 5 children were reported to be living in poverty.6, 10 Economic disadvantage is among the most potent risks for behavioral and emotional problems due to increased exposure to environmental, familial, and psychosocial risks.11 — 13 In families in which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiences.

In other words, the therapist identifies and reframes distorted representations that developed in the relationship, based on early traumatic experiences.

We can have understanding for a war veteran who is terrorized at night, or avoidant of loud noises and other things that resemble their traumatic experiences; yet we somehow expect children, babies at heart, to connect, relate, trust, love, reciprocate relationship when their early life experience was marinated in trauma; being beaten for crying, left with tiny broken bones and head injuries, being used for adult sexual gratification, born drug addicted because of a mother drug use, having rarely been held in safe arms, having felt the pain of hunger over days, being left to cry until there are no more tears and no one to soothe.

This means the child has had a significant disruption in his / her early relationships including, but not limited to; physical and / or emotional abuse or neglect, traumatic loss of a primary care giver and / or inadequate care in an out of home placement.

In many cases the disturbed parent - child relationship takes the more severe form of early parental loss or prolonged, traumatic separation, or both» (Kreisman & Straus, 1989, p. 48).

She specializes in early attachment trauma (Complex Post Traumatic Stress (C - PTSD), Sex and Love addiction and relationship counseling.

Among them are a particular sensitivity to the role of traumatic or neglectful ties with early caregivers; the fundamental importance of affect regulation to successful therapy; the importance of establishing relationships with clients characterized by close, intense, emotional, and physical attunement; and the ultimate goal of recreating in therapy an attachment experience that makes up, at least to some degree, for what the client missed the first time around.

It is not uncommon for parents and family members to also have experienced trauma in their own early years, suffer from post traumatic stress disorder, and need their own therapeutic support in addition to intervention to repair the parent - child relationship.

Project BRIGHT, Institute for Health and Recovery The Institute for Health and Recovery, Inc — in collaboration with Jewish Family and Children's Service's Center for Early Relationship Support and Boston Medical Center's Child Witness to Violence Project — will create Project BRIGHT, designed to address traumatic stress in children aged 0 - 5 and their parents in recovery from substance use disorders (SUDs) and co-occurring disorders (CODs), at eight Family Residential Treatment (FRT) programs across Massachusetts.

On the other hand, sometimes it can be difficult for EMDR trained clinicians to establish the connecting thread between the patient's symptoms (including the frequent difficulties they present in the therapeutic relationship) and the early environments in which they grew up, characterized by a high rate of attachment disruptions and severe traumatic events.

Based on empirical data from the Geneva Early Childhood Stress Project, CAVEAT, through clinician - assisted videofeedback, exposes parents to otherwise - avoided interactions that evoke traumatic memory traces and works towards a less dysregulating reconsolidation of those memory traces and a discrimination between traumatic relationships in the past and the present parent - infant relationship.